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shark193

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Registered: 2016-07-29

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[SOLVED]'-Z' option in 'ls' is not working.

I installed Arch Linux about a month ago. Most of the time I follow Arch Linux wiki. It was enough for me. Now I need help with SELinux context manipulation. Arch Linux does not come with SELinux. The wiki about SELinux also seems a lot of work to get into. And I thought I can do without SELinux. A few days ago I mounted a Android system partition in my Arch Linux. I tried to know SELinux contexts of files in that disk image. I used "ls -Z". Unfortunately I got no context information. Is there any solution to this?

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falconindy

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Re: [SOLVED]'-Z' option in 'ls' is not working.

You'd need to recompile coreutils with support for selinux. As a workaround, you might be able to just use lsattr to list the raw xattrs on the file. This should effectively give you the same information.

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shark193

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Re: [SOLVED]'-Z' option in 'ls' is not working.

I have compiled coreuils-selinux from AUR. It worked! Is my system full SELinux ready now? I checked with "getenforce". It returned 'Disabled'.

TheChickenMan

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Re: [SOLVED]'-Z' option in 'ls' is not working.

I have compiled coreuils-selinux from AUR. It worked! Is my system full SELinux ready now? I checked with "getenforce". It returned 'Disabled'.

There's a ton of programs that need to be compiled with support for SELinux for it to work, not to mention the need for a good working policy. I'm not sure how good/complete the reference policy is in Arch. Read the wiki. I definitely have respect for the Fedora devs for how well they've made the whole thing work over there.

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