A question about roles

[David Quigley]

 On Tue, 5 Jul 2011 10:38:44 -0400,  wrote:
> Feel free to point me to a link that discusses this, but how *does*
> selinux decide on roles when I'm using restorecon? Does it use the 
> context
> of the directory above it, or that it's in, or is there something 
> else?
>
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 My understanding is that restorecon uses the file contexts defined in 
 policy and if you look at these 
 /etc/selinux/policyname/contexts/files/file_contexts you will see it 
 defines a full context including role not just type. So the role from 
 restorecon and matchpathcon come from those files.

 Dave