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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?
> 

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Rahul




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