On 6/11/05, Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx <Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, 11 Jun 2005 11:28:20 CDT, Justin Conover said: > > > Question is, if that server is running SELinux on CentOS 4.0 and I > > back stuff up to that exteranl drive, will other box's be able to read > > that exteranl drive? In the chance that hardware fails and I need to > > be able to look at that data on another box? > > SELinux will enter into it very little. Just make sure that the drive is using > a file system the other box has support for. A bigger issue will be "does > the other box have support for your file system?". Using reiserfs may be > a problem if the other box doesn't have it, and even ext3 will be.. interesting.. > if the other box is a Windows box (in which case you're probably better off > just making the FS fat32 and mounting it on your SELinux box with fscontext=) > > Please note that if the other box *writes* to the file system, you'll probably > need to run 'restorecon' on it when you mount it back on the SELinux-bsed box > before things will really work right, and you are the mercy of the other box'es > security while it's mounted there. > > If you trust the other box to not leave a Trojan on the file system, the quick > answer is "go for it, and restorecon when it comes back". If you don't trust > the other box, then it gets a lot more interesting.... > The Server is CentOS 4.0 with ext3 and SELinux enabled, all my other box's are Fedora/rawhide using selinux. My wife has two windows box's and the only reason I would connect it to her's is if there was some kind of problem haveing another selinux box read the fs, so thats why I thought maybe it would be best to just put fat32 on there. If the other selinux box's can read it then I wont worry about it. Also the only reason I would mv the exteranl drive off my server is if there was a hardware failure in the server and had to recover the data. -- fedora-selinux-list mailing list fedora-selinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-selinux-list
