Bug 157856

Summary:	ls -Z should work when SE Linux is disabled
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Russell Coker <rcoker>
Component:	coreutils	Assignee:	Tim Waugh <twaugh>
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Description Russell Coker 2005-05-16 14:40:15 UTC

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Description of problem:
The command "ls -Z" displays the value of the xattr named "security.selinux".   
That attribute will sometimes exist on machines not running SE Linux, for  
example a machine that has just had SE Linux disabled, a machine booted from a  
CD for recovery, or a non-SE machine with the hard disk from a SE machine  
connected for recovery or forensics.  
  
For these reasons it doesn't make sense for "ls" to check whether SE Linux is  
enabled before giving SE Linux functionality.  At the below URL I have put a 
modified version of the coreutils patch for SE Linux to remove such checks. 
 
http://www.coker.com.au/bug/coreutils-selinux.patch.gz 

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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Run "ls -Z" on a non-SE machine and observe an error message. 

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Comment 1 Tim Waugh 2005-05-16 17:56:23 UTC

Fixed in CVS.

Package still building.