Bug 435526

Summary:	patch resets SELinux contexts
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5	Reporter:	Max Kanat-Alexander <mkanat>
Component:	patch	Assignee:	Tim Waugh <twaugh>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Brock Organ <borgan>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	5.1
Target Milestone:	rc
Target Release:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version:		Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:		Story Points:	---
Clone Of:		Environment:
Last Closed:	2008-06-16 09:21:47 UTC	Type:	---
Regression:	---	Mount Type:	---
Documentation:	---	CRM:
Verified Versions:		Category:	---
oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
Cloudforms Team:	---	Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:

Description Max Kanat-Alexander 2008-02-29 22:48:33 UTC

Whenever I use patch, it resets the contexts of all the files it touches to 
user_u:object_r:tmp_t:s0. I'm using it by applying a diff from stdin, if that
makes a difference.

This is particularly difficult since it resets the contexts even when you're a
non-root user, but restorecon is only in root's path.

Comment 1 Max Kanat-Alexander 2008-02-29 22:49:23 UTC

Oh, by the way, I think patch in more recent versions of Fedora doesn't do
this--it's only been happening to me in RHEL 5 (and in RHEL 4 before that).

Comment 3 Tim Waugh 2008-06-16 09:21:47 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 229329 ***