GNU bug report logs - #12606
Make mv work better with SELinux.

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Daniel J Walsh <dwalsh <at> redhat.com>

Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2012 19:24:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: notabug

Done: Bob Proulx <bob <at> proulx.com>

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From: Daniel J Walsh <dwalsh <at> redhat.com>
To: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: Make mv work better with SELinux.
Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2012 15:19:14 -0400

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One of if not the most common problem people hit with SELinux is the mv
command, which maintains the file context of the source destination.

mv /home/dwalsh/index.html /var/www/html/

This blows up on everybody and then the users have no idea why.

I was thinking about adding -Z (--restorecon) to mv and having it basically do a
internal restorecon on the destination.

Then we could suggest people who get burnt by this to:

alias mv="mv -Z"

In Fedora 18 we have greatly enhanced matchpathcon, by pre-compiling the
regex, so there should be very little slow down in doing this.

I will work on the patch, if people agree with the idea.
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From: Bob Proulx <bob <at> proulx.com>
To: Daniel J Walsh <dwalsh <at> redhat.com>
Cc: 12606 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#12606: Make mv work better with SELinux.
Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2012 13:57:17 -0600

tag 12606 + notabug
close 12606
thanks

Daniel J Walsh wrote:
> I will work on the patch, if people agree with the idea.

This would be a perfect topic for the discussion list.  Could we hold
the discussion there?  Until this because a trackable bug I am going
to go ahead and close the bug ticket.

Thanks!
Bob
Added tag(s) notabug. Request was from Bob Proulx <bob <at> proulx.com> to control <at> debbugs.gnu.org. (Mon, 08 Oct 2012 19:58:01 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.
bug closed, send any further explanations to 12606 <at> debbugs.gnu.org and Daniel J Walsh <dwalsh <at> redhat.com> Request was from Bob Proulx <bob <at> proulx.com> to control <at> debbugs.gnu.org. (Mon, 08 Oct 2012 19:58:02 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.
bug archived. Request was from Debbugs Internal Request <help-debbugs <at> gnu.org> to internal_control <at> debbugs.gnu.org. (Tue, 06 Nov 2012 12:24:04 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.
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