[CentOS] r-x and r-x.

Wed Apr 24 20:53:10 UTC 2013
m.roth at 5-cent.us <m.roth at 5-cent.us>

John R. Dennison wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 03:06:11PM -0400, Daniel J Walsh wrote:
>>
>> Disabling SELinux is not going to fix your problem.  Since the field is
>> just showing you that you have extended attibutes assigned to yr files.
>>
>> Why not just script around it.
>>
>> ls -l | sed 's/\. / /g'
>>
>> Would replace all ". " from your output.
>
> Because that would be too easy and people absolutely love to shoot
> themselves in the face by disabling selinux.  Because it is, as we all
> know, ridiculously hard to manage.

Don't get me started. I'm fighting it regularly. For example,
SELinux is preventing /usr/bin/perl from getattr access on the file
/sys/devices/system/node/node0/meminfo. For complete SELinux messages.

And yes, I did post a few things to the selinux list....

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