Re: SELinux - copying ISO file content

[Daniel J Walsh <dwalsh redhat com>]

Jon Masters wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> I'm not *exactly* ranting about SELinux again, but I have a question...
> 
> Suppose one mounts an ISO image (let's say the Fedora 9 DVDs) via
> loopback and wants to copy the content to a local disk directory. One
> might do something like:
> 
> $ mount -o loop Fedora-9-i386-DVD.iso /mnt
> 
> And then one might legitimately expect to be able to copy the content
> of /mnt over to e.g. /somewhere/fedora/9/i386 for NFS installs. But
> suppose that one is running SELinux in enforcing mode, then this will
> fail because the contexts differ in this operation. Then, one will
> likely quickly become severely annoyed and frustrated with SELinux,
> simply setting it permissive for the duration of the operation...
> 
> ...but how is the *average* user supposed to do this copy?
> 
> Jon.
> 
> 

Why would the copy fail?  cp should just work and set the files to the
context of the destination directory.  If this fails it is a bug.