On 04/27/11 18:59, Sam Gandhi wrote: > Looking at man pages of sefiles and restorecon , both mention that > they initialize security context database ( extended attributes) on > one or more filesystems. > > There are certainly differences between command line arguments, but > can these programs be used interchangeably as far as extended > attributes they assign to files? They both use the system's file context specification from the policy and should set the same file context on any given path (if not, its a bug). The only difference between the two is their command line arguments. Setfiles, and correspondingly its command line arguments, is primarily for initializing a filesystem's labels. Restorecon is oriented towards resetting the label on a file or a directory tree. -- Chris PeBenito Tresys Technology, LLC www.tresys.com | oss.tresys.com -- 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.
