Setting up CVS repository and avoiding Selinux issues?

[Daniel J Walsh]

On 04/28/2009 10:07 PM, Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
>
>
> I am trying to get my CVS repository setup.  Apparently,
> it appears that the repository must be in the root directory,
> otherwise I get selinux permission denials.
>
> What I tried to do initially was to locate the repository
> on a NTFS filesystem for which the context is fusefs
> which could not be changed, no matter what I tried.
> I got selinux permission errors.
>
> Giving that up, I moved the repository to a ext3 filesystem
> located on a separate drive/partition, mounted on /f-App1,
> where the repository is located @ /f-App1/Develop/cvs, and did:
>
> cd /f-App1/Develop/
> chown -R cvs:cvs cvs
> chcon -R -t cvs_data_t cvs
> find cvs -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;
> find cvs -type t -exec chmod 754 {} \;
> ln -s /f-App1/Develop/cvs /cvs
>
> and I got selinux complaining that the files are not /cvs rooted.
>
> So I did:
>
> cp -a /f-App1/Develop/cvs  /cvs1
> rm -f /cvs
> ln -s /cvs1 /cvs
>
> And it worked.
>
> How can I place my repository in a non-rooted, non-standard
> repository location and avoid the selinux complaints?

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