> On Feb 9, 2015, at 12:27 PM, Robert Nichols <rnicholsNOSPAM@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 02/09/2015 11:14 AM, James B. Byrne wrote:
>> So, I decided to run restorecon -v to
>>
...
>> restorecon reset /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key_4096 context
>> unconfined_u:object_r:sshd_key_t:s0->unconfined_u:object_r:etc_t:s0
>>
...
>> There is no REQUIREMENT that a host key have a particular file name is
>> there? The sshd_config provides for setting one explicitly and doing
>> so seems to cause no problems with ssh connections that I have yet
>> encountered.
>
> The "system_u" vs. "unconfined_u" is inconsequential. That just comes
> from process that set the label.
>
> Looking at the file labeling rules, only the 7 specific file names
> get a type of "sshd_key_t", and, strangely, not the /etc/ssh directory
> itself, so /restorecon/ will just make any other file there inherit
> the type of the directory, which is "etc_t". At first glance that looks
> like a bug, but perhaps there is come reason for that.
If you want to use a non-default filename for something, so that the pre-defined regexes which restorecon uses won’t match on it, you can either add a new regex to the policy which will be persistent or just use chcon to set the type manually.
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Mark Tinberg
mark.tinberg@xxxxxxxx
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