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Rahul
sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Fri Aug 18 19:53:31 UTC 2006
Michael Yep wrote:
> Bruno Wolff III wrote:
>> On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 15:23:18 +0200,
>> Jim Meyering <meyering at redhat.com> wrote:
>>> At first, when I saw that the SELinux-enabled cp provides a new
>>> --context=CTX option, I figured mv should have the same one, since
>>> mv sometimes needs to perform a copy. But a better way to look at
>>> that is to wonder if cp really needs the option. It's for _copying_
>>> after all: preserving, not changing permissions or SELinux "labels".
>>> When I raised the issue on the SELinux mailing list, most agreed that
>>> neither mv nor cp need that option. Of course, regardless of whether
>>> there are new options, mv should always attempt to preserve any existing
>>> SELinux context, and cp should be able to do so, too.
>> Note that cp doesn't copy (group) ownership and permissions (unmask is
>> applied) by default. It may make sense to let --preserve and -p control
>> whether the original context is copied over.
>>
> Can you tell me how to join this SELinux mailing list?
>
see http://www.nsa.gov/selinux/info/list.cfm
Rahul
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