I've merged the SELinux changes onto the trunk. For reference, this
work is based on the patches from Fedora, as of about 6 months ago, but
with some semantic changes. For example, I've removed the --lcontext and
--scontext options that were specific to their version of ls. Since the
new -Z opti
Russell Coker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Friday 30 March 2007 21:18, Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Regarding the --context=C (-Z C) option that is now accepted by
>> mkdir, mknod, mkfifo, and install, I am inclined to
>
> Currently mkdir, mknod, and mkfifo support a -m option to s
Jim Meyering wrote:
> I've merged the SELinux changes onto the trunk. For reference, this
> work is based on the patches from Fedora, as of about 6 months ago
[snip]
> Unlike with other SELinux-enabled coreutils, here, mv and cp do not
> provide the "-Z context" option. It is not the job of suc
The git-to-cvs "update" hook that was keeping the CVS repository in sync
with the master git one was unable to deal with the non-linear deltas of
today's big merge.
If you rely on the savannah coreutils cvs repository, please consider
switching to git. In the long run, we hope to set up a git-cvs
Russell Coker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Friday 30 March 2007 23:13, Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> What did you think of the proposal (in the link above) for
>>
>> fscon CTX mkdir /new/directory
>>
>> IMHO, it's not so much less "user friendly" than this equivalent:
>>
>>
Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Russell Coker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> On Friday 30 March 2007 23:13, Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> What did you think of the proposal (in the link above) for
>>>
>>> fscon CTX mkdir /new/directory
>>>
>>> IMHO, it's not so much les
Karl MacMillan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
...
>> However, your example raises a good point: with mode-setting, we *do*
>> have the option of selecting a default mode via the "umask" command.
>> Currently, there is no analog to set the default SELinux file system
>> context, and that is part of why
Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've merged the SELinux changes onto the trunk.
In case you're interested in trying it out,
here's a snapshot including the new SELinux bits:
http://meyering.net/cu/coreutils-6.9+.tar.gz
http://meyering.net/cu/coreutils-6.9+.tar.gz.sig
aka
http://
On Friday 30 March 2007 21:18, Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Regarding the --context=C (-Z C) option that is now accepted by
> mkdir, mknod, mkfifo, and install, I am inclined to
Currently mkdir, mknod, and mkfifo support a -m option to set the mode.
Install has options to also set t
On Friday 30 March 2007 23:13, Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What did you think of the proposal (in the link above) for
>
> fscon CTX mkdir /new/directory
>
> IMHO, it's not so much less "user friendly" than this equivalent:
>
> mkdir -C CTX /new/directory
How about:
umask what
On Fri, 2007-03-30 at 15:13 +0200, Jim Meyering wrote:
> Russell Coker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Friday 30 March 2007 21:18, Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> Regarding the --context=C (-Z C) option that is now accepted by
> >> mkdir, mknod, mkfifo, and install, I am inclined to
Hi
a little new to Linux - but an old timer at Unix
(incl. at&t, HP-UX, SCO, DG-UX, AIX, SUN-OS)
in other unixes, any user can use chown - provided
the file is owned by that user.
(except for root, which can chown any file).
I was wondering why the gnu chown doesn't have an option to behave
li
On Fri, 2007-03-30 at 17:39 +0200, Jim Meyering wrote:
> Russell Coker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Friday 30 March 2007 23:13, Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> What did you think of the proposal (in the link above) for
> >>
> >> fscon CTX mkdir /new/directory
> >>
> >> IMHO, i
Karl MacMillan wrote:
On Fri, 2007-03-30 at 17:39 +0200, Jim Meyering wrote:
Russell Coker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Friday 30 March 2007 23:13, Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
What did you think of the proposal (in the link above) for
fscon CTX mkdir /new/direc
On Fri, 2007-03-30 at 13:16 -0400, Karl MacMillan wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-03-30 at 17:39 +0200, Jim Meyering wrote:
> > Russell Coker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > On Friday 30 March 2007 23:13, Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >> What did you think of the proposal (in the link above) f
On Fri, 2007-03-30 at 19:53 +0200, Jim Meyering wrote:
> Karl MacMillan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> ...
> >> However, your example raises a good point: with mode-setting, we *do*
> >> have the option of selecting a default mode via the "umask" command.
> >> Currently, there is no analog to set the
Sam G wrote:
> I was wondering why the gnu chown doesn't have an option to behave
> like other unixes, where the 'owner' of a file can chown.
FAQ:
http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/#Why-can-only-root-chown-files_003f
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Sam G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> a little new to Linux - but an old timer at Unix
> (incl. at&t, HP-UX, SCO, DG-UX, AIX, SUN-OS)
>
> in other unixes, any user can use chown - provided
> the file is owned by that user.
This is a property of the system, see the description of
_POSIX_CHOWN_RESTRI
On 3/30/07, Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
If you rely on the savannah coreutils cvs repository, please consider
switching to git. In the long run, we hope to set up a git-cvsserver
interface so we won't have to rely on the script that failed today.
In the mean time, it may be a few da
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