First crack at argparse parser for semanage.

[Rejy M Cyriac]

On 04/18/2013 08:01 PM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
> David Quigley wrote:
>> On 04/18/2013 10:12, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
>>> David Quigley wrote:
> <snip>
>>>> Attached is my first crack at the argparse version of semanage.
> <snip>
>>> Well, if you're screwing with semanage's syntax... can't the bizarre
> syntax of wildcards be changed to something *normal*? Y'know, like make
> semanage fcontext -a -t httpd_sys_content_t /web\*
>>> ?
>>> And why doesn't semanage have a was to set -t u?
>>
>> I'm not sure I understand your last question. Also I'm trying not to
> mess with the syntax so we don't obsolete all the documentation out
> there.
>>
> Maybe, but the semanage syntax for wildcards is *utterly* unlike any other
> usage - any shell, or perl, or whatever, and I see absolutely no reason to
> have it so different. I guarantee it confuses people - I had problems just
> a bit ago.
> 
> And the second note - if there's a syntax for semanage that lets me change
> user context, I don't see it - the -s doesn't seem to let me do, for
> example, -s system_u.
> 

You probably need to use both semanage user ... and semanage login ...
to have a user mapped to a specific SELinux context on login,


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Regards,

Rejy M Cyriac (rmc)