Bug 411181

Summary:	%C output format (selinux file security context) of stat broken
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Frank Sweetser <fs>
Component:	coreutils	Assignee:	Ondrej Vasik <ovasik>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	8	CC:	twaugh
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Description Frank Sweetser 2007-12-04 22:03:44 UTC

According to the manpage for format, --format=%C should display the selinux
security context of a given file.

On Fedora 7, the output makes sense and agrees with ls -Z:

[fs@avocent ~]$ ls -Z /bin/ls
-rwxr-xr-x  root root system_u:object_r:ls_exec_t      /bin/ls
[fs@avocent ~]$ stat --format=%C /bin/ls
system_u:object_r:ls_exec_t

On Fedora 8, however, stat produces what appears to be a few bytes of garbage
that varies from file to file:

[root@gkar ~]# ls -Z /bin/ls
-rwxr-xr-x  root root system_u:object_r:bin_t          /bin/ls
[root@gkar ~]# stat --format=%C /bin/ls
%=s

This is on a Fedora 8 system with all patches as of 12/4/2007 applied.

Comment 1 Ondrej Vasik 2007-12-04 23:13:09 UTC

Thanks for report, solution of problem found in upstream, fix will be pushed to
rawhide and F8 tomorrow.

Comment 2 Frank Sweetser 2007-12-04 23:16:03 UTC

Thanks!

Comment 3 Ondrej Vasik 2007-12-05 14:14:01 UTC

Built as coreutils-6.9-12.fc8 - bug will get closed after the push of package to
stable F8.

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2007-12-06 20:51:45 UTC

coreutils-6.9-12.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.