Home directories within /var

[Daniel J Walsh]

On 12/31/2009 12:18 PM, Robert Nichols wrote:
> Paul Howarth wrote:
>> On Wed, 30 Dec 2009 18:52:02 -0600
>> Robert Nichols <rnicholsNOSPAM at comcast.net> wrote:
>>
>>> On my system I have home directories in /var/home and bind mounted
>>> to /home:
>>>
>>>     /var/home on /home type none (rw,bind)
>>>
>>> Is there any way to prevent restorecon on /var from descending into
>>> /var/home and destroying the normal home directory file contexts?
>>> Reproducing all of file_contexts.homedirs in local policy is of course
>>> unmaintainable.
>>
>> You can make the file contexts for /var/home match those for /home very
>> easily on F-11 onwards:
>>
>> # semanage fcontext -a -e /home /var/home
>>
>> See http://danwalsh.livejournal.com/2009/04/09/ for Dan's blog on file
>> context equivalency.
> 
> TYVM.  Perhaps someday the manpage for semanage will include some mention
> of that "-e" flag.
> 
Open a bugzilla please.