Re: restorecon question

[Vadym Chepkov <chepkov yahoo com>]

No, it was httpd_sys_content_t

Sincerely yours,
  Vadym Chepkov


--- On Wed, 7/22/09, Eric Paris <eparis redhat com> wrote:

> From: Eric Paris <eparis redhat com>
> Subject: Re: restorecon question
> To: "Vadym Chepkov" <chepkov yahoo com>
> Cc: "Fedora SELinux" <fedora-selinux-list redhat com>
> Date: Wednesday, July 22, 2009, 3:12 PM
> On Wed, 2009-07-22 at 11:06 -0700,
> Vadym Chepkov wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Could you explain me, please, the behavior of the
> restorecon utility.
> > 
> > I added the following in the local.fc file
> > 
> > # phpbb
> > /var/www/phpbb/cache(/.*)?   
>            
> gen_context(system_u:object_r:httpd_sys_script_rw_t,s0)
> > /var/www/phpbb/files(/.*)?   
>            
> gen_context(system_u:object_r:httpd_sys_script_rw_t,s0)
> > 
> > compiled and installed policy, seems to be in place.
> > 
> > # semanage fcontext -l|grep phpbb
> > /var/www/phpbb/cache(/.*)?       
>              
>    all files       
>   system_u:object_r:httpd_sys_script_rw_t:s0 
> > /var/www/phpbb/files(/.*)?       
>              
>    all files       
>   system_u:object_r:httpd_sys_script_rw_t:s0 
> > 
> > But when now I run restorecon -vR /var/www/phpbb/
> > it doesn't do anything. I would expect it to changed
> context on two directories and files in them.
> 
> What was the context before?  Was the only difference
> the 'user'
> portion?  I don't think restorecon bothers to reset
> the context if the
> only thing 'wrong' is the user, since the user is not
> relevant to any
> security operations....
> 
>