Chris Howard wrote: > I have previously existing home directories under /u01/home. > I did this because upgrading from FC6 to Fedora 7 caused me trouble > and I want to avoid having to recreate my home directory. So I copied > the whole system into /u01 before doing a fresh Fedora 8 install. I > do not have a separate home-only partition. > > SELinux prevents me from making a symbolic link like this: > > /home--> /u01/home or like this > > /home/chris--> /u01/home/chris. I wouldn't do symlinks like that unless you have some strange reason to. Just have /etc/passwd point to the actual directories under /u01/home. > If I setup a dummy user with home at /home/chris, then > edit /etc/passwd to change the home to /u01/home/chris... that doesn't > work either. > > nor if I create a new user like so: > > useradd -d /u01/home/pete pete > > Is there something magic about the string '/home' ? > that keeps me from creating home directories anywhere else? > > I'd really love to keep from smashing /home on every OS reload. > > For now I have SELinux in Permissive mode so I can at least use the > system. Here's how I /think/ it works: a) If you've got an empty /u01/home, and you want to add new users, do this: Set the type of /u01/home to home_root_t: chcon -t home_root_t /u01/home and then useradd -d /u01/home/pete will do the right thing. b) Supposing you already have some use home dirs there (ie the homeidrs in /etc/passwd point to /u01/home/*), I think you can just run 'genhomedircon' and then run: restorcon -R -v /u01/home In the case of (b), it doesn't hurt to do the chcon operation first, but I don't think it's necessary. (note: I'm not an expert myself, but if these steps don't work for you, they should at least point you in the right direction). HTH, Matt -- fedora-selinux-list mailing list fedora-selinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-selinux-list
