Re: restorecond not expanding ~

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Stephen Smalley wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-11-20 at 13:50 -0700, Forrest Taylor wrote:
>> I am using RHEL5.1 selinux-policy-targeted-2.4.6-104.el5.  restorecond
>> is not properly expanding the ~ or other wildcards
>> in /etc/selinux/restorecond.conf.  By default, restorecond.conf
>> includes:
>> ~/public_html
>>
>> However, if I create that directory as a normal user, it gets the
>> standard context (user_home_t).  If I explicitly put the full path
>> (e.g., /home/student/public_html), it works as expected.
>>
>> Does (or will) restorecond support wildcards/regex?
> 
> Wildcards/regex, no.   Tilde should be expanded to user home directories
> for users presently logged in to the system (based on utmp).
> 
> Try running it with -d -v.
> 
I haven't checked for a while.  But yes it is supposed to check ~/FILE

It does this by watching the utmp file, for users logging in and then
adds the homedir to its list of directories to watch.


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