Jon Masters wrote: > Hi folks, > > I'm not *exactly* ranting about SELinux again, but I have a question... > > Suppose one mounts an ISO image (let's say the Fedora 9 DVDs) via > loopback and wants to copy the content to a local disk directory. One > might do something like: > > $ mount -o loop Fedora-9-i386-DVD.iso /mnt > > And then one might legitimately expect to be able to copy the content > of /mnt over to e.g. /somewhere/fedora/9/i386 for NFS installs. But > suppose that one is running SELinux in enforcing mode, then this will > fail because the contexts differ in this operation. Then, one will > likely quickly become severely annoyed and frustrated with SELinux, > simply setting it permissive for the duration of the operation... > > ...but how is the *average* user supposed to do this copy? > > Jon. > > Why would the copy fail? cp should just work and set the files to the context of the destination directory. If this fails it is a bug. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
