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Bug 1002529

Summary: setsebool prints different error messages when temporary and permanent change is requested
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Reporter: Milos Malik <mmalik>
Component: policycoreutilsAssignee: Miroslav Grepl <mgrepl>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: Michal Trunecka <mtruneck>
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Priority: medium    
Version: 7.0CC: dwalsh, ebenes, mgrepl, mmalik, mtruneck
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Last Closed: 2014-06-13 09:34:40 UTC Type: Bug
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Description Milos Malik 2013-08-29 11:54:50 UTC
The tool should print the same error message ("...: Invalid boolean") in both cases.

# setsebool xyz=1
Could not change active booleans: Invalid boolean
# setsebool -P xyz=1
Failed to change boolean xyz: No such file or directory
# rpm -qf `which setsebool`
policycoreutils-2.1.14-75.el7.x86_64
#

Comment 1 Daniel Walsh 2013-08-29 13:00:09 UTC
Miroslav just change the tool to verify the boolean names in the getopt section, and blow up earlier with a good error message.

Comment 2 Miroslav Grepl 2013-09-10 11:01:09 UTC
Fixes have been added to Fedora. Will be a part of the next policycoreutils rhel7 build.

Comment 4 Ludek Smid 2014-06-13 09:34:40 UTC
This request was resolved in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.0.

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