Bug ? on "semanage fcontext" when directory name is starting with Upper case

Shintaro Fujiwara shintaro.fujiwara at gmail.com
Sat Feb 8 13:27:53 UTC 2014


And I cannot delete context either.

Although I can see by semanage fcontext -l , SELinux says I have not set
"/var/www/Dir" context at all.


2014-02-08 Shintaro Fujiwara <shintaro.fujiwara at gmail.com>:

>
> Hi, I'm playing with my web server and found a strange incident.
>
> I try to enable write to certain directory in /var/www/dir in SELinux way.
>
> I know that fancy way of doing this is to type,
>
> # semanage fcontext -a -t httpd_sys_rw_content_t /var/www/dir
>
> After successfully added rw type to directory, I will type
>
> # restorecon -rv /var/www
>
> It works fine.
>
> But, when I name the very directory "/var/www/Dir" not "/var/www/dir"
>
> first command works fine and I could see by
>
> # semanage fcontext -l |grep "/var/www"
>
> The rw type is set allright.
>
> BUT, when I restorecon the /var/www, nothing happens and with force
> option, no use.
>
> Is this a bug on "semanage fcontext" or my box is broken?
>
> My solution now is just name the directory "/var/www/dir" and post this
> question.
>
> Thanks.
>
> [root at xxxx]# sestatus
> SELinux status:                 enabled
> SELinuxfs mount:                /sys/fs/selinux
> SELinux root directory:         /etc/selinux
> Loaded policy name:             targeted
> Current mode:                   enforcing
> Mode from config file:          enforcing
> Policy MLS status:              enabled
> Policy deny_unknown status:     allowed
> Max kernel policy version:      28
>
> [root at xxxx]# rpm -qa|grep selinux
> selinux-policy-3.12.1-119.fc20.noarch
> libselinux-2.2.1-6.fc20.x86_64
> libselinux-utils-2.2.1-6.fc20.x86_64
> selinux-policy-targeted-3.12.1-119.fc20.noarch
> libselinux-python-2.2.1-6.fc20.x86_64
> php-pecl-selinux-0.3.1-12.fc20.x86_64
> libselinux-devel-2.2.1-6.fc20.x86_64
>
>
>
> --
>
> "segatex" SELinux tool
>
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/segatex/
>
>


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