Fedora Core 4

Sean Middleditch elanthis at awesomeplay.com
Mon Jan 17 15:36:43 UTC 2005


On Mon, 2005-01-17 at 10:33 -0500, Colin Walters wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-01-17 at 09:30 -0500, Sean Middleditch wrote:
> 
> > Besides, changing them in Nautilus *WILL* break the system, because the
> > second a package upgrade for selinux policies comes in and restorecon is
> > run all of their customized settings will be erased.  
> 
> The policy package doesn't do any relabeling at the moment.  This will
> likely change though, because it does cause problems.  When that occurs,
> consideration will be given to preserving customized file contexts.

So a policy update that necessitates a security fix - like changing the
context of a file that was mislabeled and is allowing access that should
be denied - can't be done?

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