Bug 185812

Summary:	The man page for restorecon doesn't document whether sym links are followed.
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Bruno Wolff III <bruno>
Component:	policycoreutils	Assignee:	Daniel Walsh <dwalsh>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Ben Levenson <benl>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	5	CC:	dwalsh, pgraner
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Description Bruno Wolff III 2006-03-18 18:19:17 UTC

Description of problem:
The man page for restorecon doesn't say how -R behaves when there are sym links.


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How reproducible:
Always


Steps to Reproduce:
1. man restorecon
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Actual results:


Expected results:


Additional info:
It looks like there is a changelog entry indicating that restorecon isn't
supposed to follow symlinks and/or apply changes to targets of sym links.

Comment 1 Daniel Walsh 2006-03-20 19:46:23 UTC

restorecon will not follow symbolic links.

Comment 2 Daniel Walsh 2006-05-24 03:48:15 UTC

Fixed in rawhide.

Comment 3 Kevin Fenzi 2007-03-24 04:54:41 UTC

I can confirm that the man page has a note that it does NOT follow symbolic links. 

Closing this bug out. If you see any further problem with it, feel free to
re-open or file a new bug against the latest version.