running star archive through restorecon

Murray McAllister mmcallis at redhat.com
Tue Oct 14 00:03:57 UTC 2008


Murray McAllister wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> This is probably user error, sorry :)
> 
> 1. touch file{1,2}; ls -Z
> -rw-rw-r--  murray murray unconfined_u:object_r:user_home_t:s0 file1
> -rw-rw-r--  murray murray unconfined_u:object_r:user_home_t:s0 file2
> 
> 2. chcon -l s0:c2 file{1,2}; ls -Z
> -rw-rw-r--  murray murray unconfined_u:object_r:user_home_t:s0:c2 file1
> -rw-rw-r--  murray murray unconfined_u:object_r:user_home_t:s0:c2 file2
> 
> 2. star -xattr -H exustar -c -f test.star file{1,2}
> star: 1 blocks + 0 bytes (total of 10240 bytes = 10.00k).
> 
> 3. cd /var/www/html/
> 
> 4. sudo star -x -f test.star | restorecon -f -
> 
> 5. ls -Z
> -rw-rw-r--  murray murray unconfined_u:object_r:user_home_t:s0:c2 file1
> -rw-rw-r--  murray murray unconfined_u:object_r:user_home_t:s0:c2 file2
> -rw-r--r--  root root unconfined_u:object_r:httpd_sys_content_t:s0 
> test.star
I've obviously done something wrong since file1 and file2 are also 
user_home_t type :(
> 
> file1 and file2 are still s0:c2. When I perform the same steps with tar 
> (using tar --selinux), in step 5, file1 and file2 use s0.
> 
> Does anyone have any pointers as to where I've gone wrong? I don't get 
> any denials when running "sudo star -x -f test.star | restorecon -f -".
> 
> I am using:
> 
> Fedora release 9.92 (Rawhide)
> star-1.5a84-6.fc10.i386
> tar-1.20-3.fc10.i386
> policycoreutils-2.0.57-1.fc10.i386
> selinux-policy-targeted-3.5.10-3.fc10.noarch
> selinux-policy-3.5.10-3.fc10.noarch
> 
> Cheers :)
> 
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