'unable to relabel' in /dev.... MAKEDEV-3.7-2

Russell Coker russell at coker.com.au
Wed Jun 16 01:54:24 UTC 2004


On Wed, 16 Jun 2004 03:13, Tom London <selinux at comcast.net> wrote:
> Running off of the development tree, MAKEDEV-3.7-2 creates lots of new
> files. Running 'fixfiles relabel' or 'setfiles -v $FC /dev' generates
> lots of error messages like:
>
> /dev/ptyu7: Permission denied
> /usr/sbin/setfiles:  unable to relabel /dev/ptyu7 to
> system_u:object_r:device_t

The /dev/[tp]ty[abcdepqrstuvwxyz][0-9a-f] device nodes do not work on SE Linux 
and almost certainly never will.

I am under the impression that /dev/[tp]ty* are strongly deprecated and not 
used in any software we ship.  Is it time to completely remove them from 
Fedora?

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