What is the correct way to create a users home dir

Daniel J Walsh dwalsh at redhat.com
Wed Feb 12 16:40:14 UTC 2014


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On 02/11/2014 07:32 PM, Jayson Hurst wrote:
> I want to have my daemon be able to create user home directories.  It
> currently does this by running a script.  What is the correct way to have
> the script create the home directory with the correct context type?
> 
> In my daemons selinux policy I have set:
> 
> userdom_home_filetrans_user_home_dir(qasd_t), but when the daemon launches
> the script to create a users home directory the directory is ends up with a
> context type of home_root_t instead of user_home_dir_t like I was
> expecting.
> 
> What am I missing here? I was under that understanding that 
> userdom_home_filetrans_user_home_dir do a type transition for me from 
> home_root_t to user_home_dir_t when I created a new directory under /home.
> Is this not correct?
> 
> 
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That is what you need.

Could you look at

sesearch -T -s qasd_t -c dir
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