-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 12/27/2012 03:08 PM, James A. Peltier wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- | -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- | Hash: > SHA1 | | On 12/27/2012 06:09 AM, Markku Kolkka wrote: | > 27.12.2012 3:03, > James A. Peltier kirjoitti: | > | >> I'm really feeling dense today. I > can't find anywhere in the FTP | >> man | >> page anything related to > SELinux labels. | > | > See "man ftpd_selinux". > > Yet again, this is about setting a SELinux context and not removing it, or > excluding it from SELinux processing entirely. This is NOT what I want to > do. Thankfully, Dan Walsh understood the problem and was able to better > answer it for me. > > > | Depending on your virsion, you should be able to add an entry like | > /exports to | /etc/selinux/fixfiles_exclude_dirs | | And fixfiles should > exclude this directory. (Autorelabel/rpm updates) | | grep > fixfiles_exclude_dirs /sbin/fixfiles > > However, on CentOS 5.8 or 6.3 this does not seem to exist on any of the > hosts I have. > > [root@daat ~]# which fixfiles /sbin/fixfiles > > and [root@daat ~]# grep -i exclude /sbin/fixfiles > > returns nothing > > but it does exist in Fedora. > > | Another way to do this is to add a mount option to the directories | > mounted at | /exports | | mount -o context="..." | | Autorelabel does not > relabel anything mounted with a context option. > > > Ok gotcha! So since I'm trying to understand this better in the context of > an NFS file server what would be the "best" aka least intrusive context > (perhaps most permissive is a better term)? Perhaps > unconfined_u:object_r:default_t:s0? A secondary question is why is it > that > > semanage fcontext -a -t "<<none>>" "/exports(/.*)?" > > did not work? Shouldn't this tell SELinux not to bother with the directory > or is it still walking the file system to find files with labels? Thanks > for you help in better utilizing SELinux BTW. ;) > What does matchpathcon /exports/foobar say after you add that rule? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with undefined - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlDcwQQACgkQrlYvE4MpobOZsgCdGfyWtL4szZ6UBsheJUZ1SoG4 LOIAoM9GbIwQZSo7fQN050fINdJd6EBT =n2Qk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos