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For remote operation, rdiff-backup should be in installed and in the
PATH on remote system(s) (see man page for more information).
+The python modules pylibacl and pyxattr are optional. If they are
+installed and in the default pythonpath, rdiff-backup will support
+access control lists and user extended attributes, provided the file
+system(s) also support these features. Pylibacl and pxattr can be
+downloaded from http://pylibacl.sourceforge.net/ and
+http://pyxattr.sourceforge.net/.
+
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