From: Daniel J Walsh <dwalsh@redhat.com>
To: Sam Gandhi <samgandhi9@gmail.com>
Cc: selinux@tycho.nsa.gov
Subject: Re: Is it possible to assign different labels to symbolic links and actual files?
Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 17:07:29 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DDC1E11.2020200@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTi=UEBFLWeWMov7GjOn_-Q3QuyTyxw@mail.gmail.com>
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On 05/24/2011 04:46 PM, Sam Gandhi wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am working on a embedded platform and we have busybox on this device.
>
> What we would like to do do is assign diffrent labels to various
> busybox links. What we have seen when running things on JFFS2 when I
> label a symbolic link, the actual file gets the label, but the link
> itself doesn't (according to ls -lZ output). We have seen similar
> behaviour with files on tmpfs as well.
>
> ls -lZ
> -rw-r--r-- 1 0 Jan 1 00:12 system_u:object_r:myfile_t X
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 1 Jan 1 00:13 user_u:object_r:tmpfs_t Y -> X
>
> Is there no way to assign different label to symlink and actual files?
> Is this file-system specific issue? Are there any file-system that
> support assigning seperate labels to symlink and actual file?
>
> -Sam
>
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Yes you can label symbolic links differently then their targets, how are
you assiging the labels?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-24 21:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-24 20:46 Is it possible to assign different labels to symbolic links and actual files? Sam Gandhi
2011-05-24 21:07 ` Daniel J Walsh [this message]
2011-05-24 21:46 ` Sam Gandhi
2011-05-25 11:58 ` Daniel J Walsh
2011-05-25 12:15 ` Russell Coker
2011-05-25 12:41 ` Stephen Smalley
2011-05-24 21:15 ` Dominick Grift
2011-05-24 21:21 ` Guido Trentalancia
2011-05-24 22:53 ` Russell Coker
2011-05-25 2:27 ` Sam Gandhi
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