Re: Another selinux rant

["Arthur Pemberton" <pemboa gmail com>]

On Jan 4, 2008 2:39 PM, Michael Wiktowy <michael wiktowy gmail com> wrote:
> On Jan 4, 2008 11:40 AM, Ed Swierk <eswierk arastra com> wrote:
> > On 1/4/08, Tomasz Torcz <tomek crocom com pl> wrote:
> > > tar with "--xattrs"?
> >
> > No, I didn't realize --xattrs existed; the tar info page doesn't
> > mention it. Oh, there it is in the man page.
> > I see. I now notice ls has a -Z option that shows the SELinux security context.
> >
> > It would be nice if ls -l would show the security context by default
> > when SELinux is enabled, as the context is apparently just as
> > important as file permissions.
>
> I started to use cp -P + rm rather than mv to shuffle around config
> files and files between user directories and 99% of my selinux
> attribute issues went away. I checked the man page for mv and didn't
> see anything; is there an equivalent to cp's -P parameter for mv?
>
> /Mike


This has suggested before in reply to past rants.


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