On Tue, 2009-06-02 at 08:05 -0700, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote:
Adam Williamson awilliam@redhat.com writes:
...when SELinux blocks a legitimate operation on your system, file a bug on it, with the appropriate information included.
This brings me to a question. What do other folks do when running rdist(1) (or similar) on a system that has selinux enabled? I just succeeded in locking myself out of a remote system when it updated */.ssh/authorized_keys and the context was updated in a way that was distasteful to selinux.
Looking at the rdist man page I see no indication that rdist understands contexts and tries to preserve them. Is this true? Bug? RFE?
rsync supports preserving xattrs if you run it with the -X option. I'm not aware of similar support for rdist. Any particular reason for using rdist rather than rsync?