how does rpm work under Selinux

[Daniel J Walsh]

James Z. Li wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>I was wondering how rpm works with Selinux, say I downloaded
>a third-party rpm package and installed it with rpm -i. Will rpm
>label the newly installed file properly or I have to relabel filesystem
>or do 'restorecon' manually ?
>
>Any webpages I could read on this problem? Thanks a lot.
>
>James
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It will label the file according the the file_context file installed on 
the machine.   This may or may not be "correctly". 
Usually this is only a problem if the app is installed in a non standard 
directory.

Dan

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