default and new file contexts

[Miroslav Grepl]

On 03/25/2013 06:56 PM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
> Daniel J Walsh wrote:
>> On 03/25/2013 10:13 AM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
>>> We've got a scratch directory; in it, any user can write. I've gotten
>>> complaints of unlabled, and I found and set them to default_t.
>>>
>>> Here's the question: if I use semanage to set one of the user
>>> subdirectories to, say, default_t, and they try to copy a file that
>>> already has a valid context, would that context be changed to default_t,
>>> or would it retain its existing context?
>>>
>> If it is shared by users I would label it something like user_home_t.
>>
>> cp command adopts the label of the destination parent directory or file
>> (Most of the time).
>>
>> mv command maintains the label of the source.
> But if, after this, I do a restorecon, or fixfiles, or autorelabel, will
> that change all of them?
>
>        mark
>
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You can verify it using matchpathcon. Basically if you use "semanage", 
you add permanent labeling.