xattr - set/retrieve extended attributes

Author:Brian Coca

Synopsis

New in version 1.3.

Manages filesystem user defined extended attributes, requires that they are enabled on the target filesystem and that the setfattr/getfattr utilities are present.

Options

parameter	required	default	choices	comments
follow	no	True	yes no	if yes, dereferences symlinks and sets/gets attributes on symlink target, otherwise acts on symlink itself.
key	no	None		The name of a specific Extended attribute key to set/retrieve
name	yes	None		The full path of the file/object to get the facts of
state	no	get	read present all keys absent	defines which state you want to do. read retrieves the current value for a key (default) present sets name to value, default if value is set all dumps all data keys retrieves all keys absent deletes the key
value	no	None		The value to set the named name/key to, it automatically sets the state to 'set'

Examples

# Obtain the extended attributes  of /etc/foo.conf
- xattr: name=/etc/foo.conf

# Sets the key 'foo' to value 'bar'
- xattr: path=/etc/foo.conf key=user.foo value=bar

# Removes the key 'foo'
- xattr: name=/etc/foo.conf key=user.foo state=absent