Description of problem: When running "rsync -aXHSA --link-dest ..." as part of my backup script I am getting the following error: rsync: rsync_xal_clear: lremovexattr(".","security.selinux") failed: Permission denied (13) rsync: rsync_xal_clear: lremovexattr("lost+found","security.selinux") failed: Permission denied (13) I changed selinux to permissive mode, but I still get the same errors. The only way I can avoid this error is to completely deactivate selinux. No error message is logged in /var/log/audit/audit.log . Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: 100% Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info:
Bug in rsync: don't try to remove the SELinux attribute. SELinux doesn't ever allow removal of its attributes if enabled; you can change the label, but all data must be labeled. If we really had to support this, we could introduce a permission for it, but I'm not keen on that. Or perhaps make it yet another thing subject to CAP_MAC_ADMIN.
even if we did make this a CAP_MAC_ADMIN security check I wouldn't recommend putting this in policy for anything, so it'd be a pointless denial all the time...
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