Re: strange labeling problem

On Thu, 2004-04-08 at 09:32, Stephen Smalley wrote:
> chcon likely never called setfilecon at all, since getfilecon would have
> told it that the file already had the right context. Try setfilecon
> instead. If it had called setfilecon -> setxattr, then SELinux would
> have updated the inode SID accordingly.

This suggests that perhaps chcon should have a force option to force it to relabel even if it thinks that the file already has the correct context. Looks like '-f' is already taken.

-- 
Stephen Smalley <sds@epoch.ncsc.mil>
National Security Agency


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