On Tue, 2009-06-02 at 08:05 -0700, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote:
Adam Williamson <awilliam(a)redhat.com> writes:
> ...when SELinux blocks a legitimate operation on your system, file a bug
> on it, with the appropriate information included.
This brings me to a question. What do other folks do when running
rdist(1) (or similar) on a system that has selinux enabled? I just
succeeded in locking myself out of a remote system when it updated
*/.ssh/authorized_keys and the context was updated in a way that was
distasteful to selinux.
Looking at the rdist man page I see no indication that rdist understands
contexts and tries to preserve them. Is this true? Bug? RFE?
rsync supports preserving xattrs if you run it with the -X option.
I'm not aware of similar support for rdist. Any particular reason for
using rdist rather than rsync?
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Stephen Smalley
National Security Agency