lost+found labeling

Stephanos Manos stefmanos at gmail.com
Sat Sep 8 10:36:08 UTC 2007


Ken YANG wrote:
> Stephanos Manos wrote:
>> Ken YANG wrote:
>>> Stephanos Manos wrote:
>>>> Hi
>>>>
>>>> I'm in the proses of building a hole server and i was wondering what is
>>>> the correct way of labeling the lost+found directory of various file
>>>> systems that will be mounted under the /srv. I have labeled /srv as
>>>> public_content_rw_t with
>>>> semanage fcontext -a -t public_content_rw_t '/srv(/.*)?'
>>>> but that results to lost+found being labeled as public_content_rw_t so i
>>>> also run
>>>> semange fcontext -a -f -d  -t lost_found_t '/srv/(.*/)lost\+found'
>>>>
>>>> my question is:
>>>> in /etc/selinux/targeted/contexts/files/file_contexts i see two lines
>>>> for /lost+found
>>>> a. /lost\+found/.* <<none>>
>>>> b. /lost\+found    -d      system_u:object_r:lost_found_t:s0
>>>>
>>>> the second is created with the above mentioned command
>>>> who do i create the first or i don't needed?
>>> the first one is about the content in lost+found, and the second is
>>> about the directory lost+found, i think you also find the "-d" item.
>>>
>>> the label rules you create through "semanage fcontext" are in:
>>>
>>> /etc/selinux/targeted/contexts/files/file_contexts.local
>>>
>> Yes i know that. when i issue the above mentioned semange fcontext
>> command i see the following line created in
>> /etc/selinux/targeted/contexts/files/file_contexts.local
>>
>> /srv/(.*/)lost\+found    -d      system_u:object_r:lost_found_t:s0
>>
>> but how do i create a line that is
>> /srv/(.*/)lost\+found/.* <<none>>
>>
>> in the file_contexts.local
>>
>> or i don't need it?
> 
> the need of this line depends on your purpose. This line means
> the context of files you created in the dir are labeled according to
> the creating process and containing directory, if no policy rules
> about it.
> 
> i think you should keep this line in your file context file

The question is:
witch is the correct command that creates the line since direct editing
of the file is not recommended ?

Stephanos

> 
>> Stephanos
>>
>>>> Regards
>>>>
>>>> Stephanos Manos
>>>>
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