On Mon, 2008-10-06 at 15:17 -0500, Jerry Vonau wrote: > Daniel J Walsh wrote: > > Jon Masters wrote: > >> On Fri, 2008-10-03 at 09:13 -0400, Daniel J Walsh wrote: > >> > >>>> $ 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... > > I've seen this... Indeed. I have too, one too many times. > SELinux is preventing cp from creating a file with a context of > iso9660_t on a > filesystem. Ah yes, I probably used the standard "cp -ax blah /blah" command. I guess I'll need to learn not to use such standard commands in future and adapt everything around SELinux. Because that's very non-obtrusive, and won't cause regular users any anguish at all. Jon. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
