From: Daniel J Walsh <dwalsh@redhat.com>
To: Stephen Smalley <sds@epoch.ncsc.mil>
Cc: russell@coker.com.au, "Carlos Anísio Monteiro" <monteiro@ipen.br>,
selinux <selinux@tycho.nsa.gov>
Subject: Re: genfs_contexts file
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 08:42:43 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3FC4ADD3.9040505@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200311261135.09128.russell@coker.com.au>
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Russell Coker wrote:
>On Wed, 26 Nov 2003 08:48, Carlos Anísio Monteiro <monteiro@ipen.br> wrote:
>
>
>>I have a doubt about *genfs_contexts* file. For example, the statement
>>below:
>>
>>*genfscon vfat / system_u:object_r:dosfs_t*
>>
>>I mounted the windows filesystem with: *mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/win*
>>I access with: *cd /mnt/win* and run *ls --context*
>>The print out of the *ls --context* is:
>>*-rwxr--r-- root root (null) 130700.htm
>>
>>
>
>Files/directories that are assigned contexts with genfscon do not have an
>xattr, so "ls --context" can not show their context.
>
>This is a known issue. I don't know if there are plans to change it.
>
>
Steven,
Is there a way to change libselinux to return this data, ie if
getfilecon is going to return NULL, then have it return the genfscon value?
Dan
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-11-26 13:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-11-25 21:48 genfs_contexts file Carlos Anísio Monteiro
2003-11-26 0:35 ` Russell Coker
2003-11-26 13:32 ` Stephen Smalley
2003-11-26 13:42 ` Daniel J Walsh [this message]
2003-11-26 13:46 ` Stephen Smalley
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