SELinux should be off by default in FC3

Kenneth Porter shiva at sewingwitch.com
Thu Oct 7 15:12:50 UTC 2004


--On Thursday, October 07, 2004 10:27 AM -0400 Stephen Smalley 
<sds at epoch.ncsc.mil> wrote:

>> Not all users have shell access either.
>
> If they upload to the right location in the first place, then they
> likely won't have a problem - the new files will inherit the security
> context of the parent directory.  It is only when they upload to a
> location with different protection defaults and then move to the new
> location.  Even copying would work fine, as noted, as it doesn't
> preserve protections by default unless you specify the corresponding
> option.

Does FTP support moving? If not, then the issue of not having shell access 
goes away, because the user can't upload and then move.




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