Re: Emacs and SELinux contexts

[Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com>]

On Monday 07 June 2010 02:58 AM, Juanma Barranquero wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 08:39, Suvayu Ali<fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com>  wrote:
>
>> 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,
>
> The etc/NEWS currently on the Emacs repository has this:
>
>    ** Basic SELinux support has been added.
>    This requires Emacs to be linked with libselinux at build time.
>
>    *** Emacs preserves the SELinux file context when backing up, and
>    optionally when copying files. To this end, copy-file has an extra
>    optional argument, and backup-buffer and friends include the SELinux
>    context in their return values.
>
>    *** The new functions file-selinux-context and set-file-selinux-context
>    get and set the SELinux context of a file.
>
>    *** Tramp offers handlers for file-selinux-context and
> set-file-selinux-context
>    for remote machines which support SELinux.
>
> so (some) SELinux support will be included on 24.1. Unfortunately,
> that will likely be many months from now.
>
> If you need that support now you can try building Emacs directly from
> the current development sources.
>

Thank you very much, Juanma. :)

>      Juanma


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