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From: Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com>
To: Emacs mailing list <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Emacs and SELinux contexts
Date: Sun, 06 Jun 2010 23:39:39 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C0C942B.8050002@gmail.com> (raw)

Hi everyone,

I have noticed something with emacs on GNU/Linux systems. When you edit 
something with Emacs, the SELinux  context of the file doesn't stay 
preserved. This could be an issue when you edit configuration or policy 
files as root. A system setting file usually has a context like this,

system_u:object_r:usr_t:s0

but upon editing with Emacs it changes to

unconfined_u:object_r:usr_t:s0

I don't know how severe this is but maybe its worth looking at? 
Specially when this problem is absent for other editors. I tried this 
with nano, vim and  mousepad. None of them had this issue. Can this be 
filed as a bug? Where would be the appropriate place to file this? The 
Emacs bugzilla or the bugzilla for my distribution?

Thanks for any suggestions.

-- 
Suvayu

Open source is the future. It sets us free.



             reply	other threads:[~2010-06-07  6:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-06-07  6:39 Suvayu Ali [this message]
2010-06-07  9:58 ` Emacs and SELinux contexts Juanma Barranquero
2010-06-07 14:48   ` Suvayu Ali
     [not found] <mailman.22.1275892792.30245.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-06-07  7:10 ` Glenn Morris
2010-06-07 16:27 ` Stefan Monnier

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