Russell Coker <russell@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > unstable0:~/coreutils-6.10# ls -l / > total 158 > drwxr-xr-x+ 2 root root 4096 2008-03-25 10:02 bin > drwxr-xr-x+ 6 root root 1024 2008-03-21 12:30 boot > drwxr-xr-x+ 16 root root 3700 2008-03-25 13:38 dev > drwxr-xr-x+ 80 root root 4096 2008-03-25 13:38 etc > drwxr-xr-x+ 3 root root 4096 2008-02-15 22:08 home > > In Debian/Unstable the output of "ls -l" is as above, the "+" indicates a SE > Linux security context - which doesn't do much good when every file has one. > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=472590 > > The above URL has the Debian bug report with a patch. Hi Russell, Older versions of the POSIX spec for ls clearly require a "+" on any file with a SE Linux security context. But the latest allows it to be any non-space printable character. So eventually we'll make it more useful than a one-size-fits-all "+", but it must remain a non-' '. -- This message was distributed to subscribers of the selinux mailing list. If you no longer wish to subscribe, send mail to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the words "unsubscribe selinux" without quotes as the message.