On Mon, 2008-03-17 at 11:31 +0000, Paul Howarth wrote:
ttaylor wrote:
> Does anything special have to be done to cause SELinux to start using newly
> added local filecontexts? What I'm finding is that if I use semanage
> fcontext -a to add a local filecontext definition, it is not used by
> restorecon unless I specify the "-F" option. Without the "-F"
option,
> restorecon -vv <file_path> gives the following message:
>
> /sbin/restorecon: <file_path> not reset customized by admin to
> <current_context>
>
> but restorecon -vv -F <file_path> gives this:
>
> /sbin/restorecon reset <file_path> context
<current_context>-><new_context>
This is probably because <current_context> is a customizable type like
httpd_sys_content_t; objects with these types don't get reset by
restorecon unless you use -F. I'm not sure how to find out which types
are customizable off the top of my head though.
cat /etc/selinux/$SELINUXTYPE/contexts/customizable_types
Dan - I thought we had discussed reducing that set significantly since
it was originally to avoid clobbering locally-set types upon a
filesystem relabel prior to the introduction of semanage, but with users
now able to add local file contexts easily via semanage fcontext -a, it
isn't as necessary.
--
Stephen Smalley
National Security Agency