SELinux - copying ISO file content

[Arthur Pemberton]

On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 3:25 AM, Jon Masters <jonathan at jonmasters.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-10-03 at 09:13 -0400, Daniel J Walsh wrote:
>
>> > $ 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...
>
>> 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.
>
> Ok, so there's a bug there then. Copying files from within an ISO image
> was kind of the last straw in my willingness to keep SELinux enabled. It
> hinders me at almost every turn from doing useful things with a Linux
> desktop - I'm constantly amazed that Fedora persists in defaulting it
> enabled, but that's a whole other rant.


You can copy files from within an ISO mount. You cannot serve the
files directly in the mount from HTTPd though.

But copying definitely works.

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