[FC5] Samba and SELinux

Stephen Smalley sds at tycho.nsa.gov
Wed Apr 5 18:13:24 UTC 2006


On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 10:59 -0700, Dan Thurman wrote:
> Folks,
> 
> What is the procedure for creating Samba shares and
> getting around the SELinux issues?
> 
> Samba by default no longer works with shares such
> as [homes] and any other added shares without administrator
> intervention to add SELinux labels on share directories.
> 
> Please direct me to the FAQ for Samba & SELinux or
> please tell me what I have to do to get samba shares
> working.
> 
> In my case - I am getting permission denied in the audit
> logs and in the message logs for nmbd, I am getting
> directories do not exists errors (when they actually
> do!).

Does 'man samba_selinux' still cover the issue adequately?  Or does it
need to be updated?

-- 
Stephen Smalley
National Security Agency




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