Yet normally /home is home_root_t. And in my case /data is a mount point for other things; the actual disk is mounted at /data/home, so I thought I was doing the equivalent of what the man page says.
Roland
--Roland Roberts, PhD
6818 Madeline Court
Brooklyn, NY 11220
-------- Original message --------
From: Dominick Grift <dominick.grift@gmail.com>
Date: 05/28/2013 4:13 AM (GMT-05:00)
To: Roland Roberts <roland@astrofoto.org>
Cc: selinux@lists.fedoraproject.org
Subject: Re: SELinux, NIS, NFS, and /home, trouble with Fedora 18 converting
user_home_dir_t to detault_t
On Mon, 2013-05-27 at 19:01 -0400, Roland Roberts wrote:
SELinux contexts for /home are treated a bit differently than other
locations.
Try instead: (from: man semanage):
> For home directories under top level directory, for example /disk6/home,
> execute the following commands.
> # semanage fcontext -a -t home_root_t "/disk6"
> # semanage fcontext -a -e /home /disk6/home
> # restorecon -R -v /disk6
> I'm trying to clean up selinux contexts and having trouble. The system
> is a new install of Fedora 18, but the home directories have been
> preserved for a long time. Because the system runs boot on raid-1, it
> was installed as Fedora 17 and then I used fedup to move to Fedora 18.
>
> My home directories are automounted via NFS and an NIS map. I mount them
> on the clients with an explicit context:
>
> 270 roland> ypcat auto.home
> -rw,soft,intr,tcp,context="system_u:object_r:user_home_t:s0"
> archos.rlent.pnet:/data/home/&
>
> However, my troubles right now are confined to the server.
>
> The real home directory is /data/home so /data/home/roland is mounted on
> /home/roland. All clients see the same mount point, even the server
> remounts this way.
>
> Most of the selinux context information is wrong, probably because some
> of these files have been hanging around roughly since RedHat 3.0.3. Yes,
> really. Although the content has surely changed (e.g., .bashrc).
>
> To get started, I've done this
>
> semanage fcontext -a -t home_root_t /data/home
> semanage fcontext -a -t user_home_dir_t '/data/home/(.*)'
> semanage fcontext -a -t lost_found_t /data/home/lost+found
> restorecon -v -R /data/home
>
> That gave the surprising result of doing absolutely nothing. So I
> brute-forced it and did
>
> semanage fcontext -a -t home_root_t /data/home
> semanage fcontext -a -t lost_found_t /data/home/lost+found
> for D in $LIST; do semanage fcontext -a -t user_home_dir_t
> /data/home/$D; done
> restorecon -v -R /data/home
>
> The above did not work for the lost+found directory. I haven't figured
> out why. I tried deleting all the contexts I had set and starting over
> and I tried setting the context just on lost+found repeatedly to no
> avail. lost+found remains default_t.
>
> Next, I log in via ssh to my user account. Since I have X forwarding
> turned on, this results in an .Xauthority file being created. If I run
> (as root, from another window) restorecon, I get this
>
> [root@archos ~]# cd /data/home/roland
> [root@archos roland]# restorecon -v -R /data/home/roland
> restorecon reset /data/home/roland/.Xauthority context
> unconfined_u:object_r:xauth_home_t:s0->unconfined_u:object_r:default_t:s0
>
> So the file was created with the correct context, but it gets zapped
> with restorecon. I can create a new file via touch and it gets created
> with the correct context
>
> 268 roland> ls -Z foo
> -rw-rw-r--. roland roland unconfined_u:object_r:user_home_t:s0 foo
> 269 roland> ls -Zad .
> drwxr-xr-x. roland roland system_u:object_r:user_home_dir_t:s0 .
>
> But again, if I run restorecon, it gets converted to default_t.
>
> I realize the whole NIS/NFS thing makes this problematic on the clients,
> but all of the above is on the server. I was hoping to get the file
> contexts fixed up, but even if I can get it to stop converting
> everything back to default_t, I haven't got a clue about all the other
> contexts I need to set (e.g., ssh_home_t for .ssh, but what else) and
> then I fear they will just get reset, too.
>
> So, what's going on here and how do I stop it? Then after that, how do I
> go about fixing all the default_t under my home directory to be what
> they should be.
>
> roland
>