Russell Coker wrote:
On Friday 10 October 2008 10:30, Murray McAllister <mmcallis@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
tar xvf file.tgz | restorecon -f -
Would reset the file context on disk after the extraction.
Does this only apply to the tar file itself, not the files in it? On
rawhide the extracted files (that have extended attributes) inherit the
type of the directory they are being extracted in.
The "v" option of tar causes it to list on stdout all the files it extracts.
The -f- option of restorecon makes it take a list of files to relabel on
stdin. So it relabels all files extracted from the tar file.
The inheriting of file contexts from a directory (in the absence of policy
rules specifying otherwise) has AFAIK always been the design of SE Linux.
When would "tar | restorecon -f -" be used if files inherit contexts
from parent directories (if policy has not be changed)? Sorry, I am a
bit slow :)
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