From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mummy.ncsc.mil (mummy.ncsc.mil [144.51.88.129]) by tycho.ncsc.mil (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i79JjxrT028076 for ; Mon, 9 Aug 2004 15:45:59 -0400 (EDT) Received: from smtp814.mail.ukl.yahoo.com (jazzhorn.ncsc.mil [144.51.5.9]) by mummy.ncsc.mil (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id i79JjNnn018717 for ; Mon, 9 Aug 2004 19:45:23 GMT Received: from unknown (HELO hyd) (selinux@tycho.nsa.gov@81.152.10.162 with poptime) by smtp814.mail.ukl.yahoo.com with SMTP; 9 Aug 2004 19:45:58 -0000 Received: from highfield ([192.168.0.223] helo=lkcl.net) by hyd with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BuFdi-0000LG-91 for selinux@tycho.nsa.gov; Mon, 09 Aug 2004 19:16:58 +0000 Received: from lkcl by lkcl.net with local (Exim 4.24) id 1BuGGn-00040u-5a for selinux@tycho.nsa.gov; Mon, 09 Aug 2004 20:57:21 +0100 Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2004 20:57:21 +0100 From: Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton To: SE-Linux Subject: different selinux file-context root Message-ID: <20040809195721.GP3868@lkcl.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-selinux@tycho.nsa.gov List-Id: selinux@tycho.nsa.gov i'm thinking of doing installs of selinux systems and online backups/restores from an initial ramdisk. e.g. modifying rsync to cope with selinux file contexts. e.g. there are several backup programs that create bootable CDs, that then redo the entire system. what would make sense is for rsync, star etc. to have a context-"chroot" under which the selinux file contexts get recreated relative to that directory as the root filesystem. then i don't have to mess about ensuring that the entire filesystem is correctly there and then doing something like this: chroot /mnt-point make -C /etc/selinux/src relabel l. -- Truth, honesty and respect are rare commodities that all spring from the same well: Love. If you love yourself and everyone and everything around you, funnily and coincidentally enough, life gets a lot better. -- lkcl.net
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