On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 13:26 -0700, Dan Thurman wrote:
On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 12:59 -0700, Bob Kashani wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 10:59 -0700, Dan Thurman wrote:
> > Folks,
> >
> > What is the procedure for creating Samba shares and
> > getting around the SELinux issues?
> >
> > Samba by default no longer works with shares such
> > as [homes] and any other added shares without administrator
> > intervention to add SELinux labels on share directories.
> >
> > Please direct me to the FAQ for Samba & SELinux or
> > please tell me what I have to do to get samba shares
> > working.
> >
> > In my case - I am getting permission denied in the audit
> > logs and in the message logs for nmbd, I am getting
> > directories do not exists errors (when they actually
> > do!).
>
> /usr/sbin/setsebool -P samba_enable_home_dirs=1
> /usr/sbin/setsebool -P smbd_disable_trans=1
>
> That's what I had to do to get samba working with home shares on FC5.
>
> Bob
>
Thanks for the response! Yes, I did that for [home] but
the problem is what to do with: /var/www
There are many different contexts for this directory and all
the files under it and I was not sure how to make this directory
a samba share without blowing away the original context in fear
of breaking it all to bits.
I want to keep all the original context AND add samba share context
OR the public_share_rw_t as Stephen Smalley recommended but I was
not sure how to do that. This is the question I asked of Mr Smalley
and I am waiting to hear of his response.
Well if you have things setup properly then you should be able to
read/write to your /var/www dir just fine as-is without any extra
changes. I can access my /var/www content just fine via samba without
any extra tweaking of selinux.
I basically access my /var/www dir through my home dir. Just create a
symlink from your home dir to /var/www and make sure that you own the
dirs and have the right permissions to rw to it.
Bob
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Bob Kashani
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