Re: Setting up a samba share?
On Mon, 2006-11-06 at 21:52 -0800, Knute Johnson wrote:
I'm setting up a samba share on my new FC6 install that will be
public with no password required. Just like an unmolested Windows
share.
I found an article that said to put the selinux context description
in /etc/selinux/targeted/contexts/files/file_contexts.local.
My shared directory is /var/share. I put the line:
/var/share(/.*)? system_u:object_r:samba_share_t
in that file.
Is this the correct way to make this change and make it permanent?
Will this do what it is supposed to do?
Since FC5 the way to do this is not by editing file_contexts.local but
by using semanage:
# semanage fcontext -a -t samba_share_t '/var/share(/.*)?'
Having changed policy by doing this, the context types of the files
themselves still need changing:
# restorecon -r /var/share
This is selinux related but why does the directory have to be world
executable to make this work?
Directories need to be executable in order to list their contents, don't
they?
Paul.