Bug 1152832

Summary:	virt-rescue --selinux can not work well, when enable selinux in the command line the value of 'getenforce' is still Disabled in virt-rescue appliance
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	Reporter:	Lingfei Kong <lkong>
Component:	libguestfs	Assignee:	Richard W.M. Jones <rjones>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Virtualization Bugs <virt-bugs>
Severity:	low	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	6.6	CC:	leiwang, linl, mbooth, ptoscano, rjones, virt-bugs, wshi
Target Milestone:	rc
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Clone Of:	1152825	Environment:
Last Closed:	2016-07-14 15:02:08 UTC	Type:	Bug
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Bug Depends On:	1152825
Bug Blocks:	1301844

Description Lingfei Kong 2014-10-15 03:43:44 UTC

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #1152825 +++

Description of problem:
virt-rescue --selinux can not work well, when enable selinux in the command line the value of 'getenforce' is still Disabled in virt-rescue appliance


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
libguestfs-1.27.62-1.1.el7


How reproducible:
100%


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Get a rhel guest image: rhel.img
2. #virt-rescue --selinux -a rhel.img
><rescue> getenforce
Disabled
><rescue> ls -Z /
lrwxrwxrwx root root ?                                bin -> usr/bin
dr-xr-xr-x root root ?                                boot
drwxr-xr-x root root ?                                dev
drwxr-xr-x root root ?                                etc


Actual results:
#virt-rescue --selinux -a rhel.img
><rescue> getenforce
Disabled
><rescue> ls -Z /
lrwxrwxrwx root root ?                                bin -> usr/bin
dr-xr-xr-x root root ?                                boot
drwxr-xr-x root root ?                                dev
drwxr-xr-x root root ?                                etc


Expected results:
selinux should be enabled in virt-rescue appliance and works well


Additional info:

Comment 3 Pino Toscano 2016-07-14 15:02:08 UTC

See bug 1152825 comment 6 for the reasons.