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On 09/05/2010 02:20 PM, Paul Howarth wrote:
> On Thu, 02 Sep 2010 10:40:05 -0400
> Daniel J Walsh <dwalsh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> On 08/27/2010 04:14 AM, Paul Howarth wrote:
>>> On 27/08/10 07:12, Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I have several versions of root distro partitions of which I do
>>>> mount via fstab, but of course only one / and /boot partition
>>>> is to be defined for the version to be booted.
>>>>
>>>> What I would like to know is, if I do an /.autorelabel,
>>>> for one boot/root partition, does this mean that every
>>>> mounted filesystem that appears in /etc/fstab also gets
>>>> relabeled? If so, this is not what I want especially if
>>>> other root distro partitions are being mounted for example,
>>>> say: /md/{distro1, distro2, ...}
>>>>
>>>> So, How do I get around this? I could comment out
>>>> all entries in /etc/fstab except / and /boot (plus the
>>>> required entries), touch /.autorelabel, reboot, and once
>>>> relabeling is completed, then add back in the commented
>>>> out fstab entries, then issue a mount -a. Could I add an option
>>>> entry say: NO_RELABEL to certain fstab entries?
>>>>
>>>> Since I was introduced to the /media since F9, I never could
>>>> figure out how to add mounted "media" filesystems, which
>>>> is why I added them instead to fstab.
>>>>
>>>> How do I solve this issue?
>>>
>>> I create a local policy module for this sort of thing, with a file
>>> contexts entry like this:
>>>
>>> # Don't touch stuff here
>>> /srv/homes(/.*)? <<none>>
>>>
>>> So you could have:
>>> ::::::::::::::
>>> otherdistros.fc
>>> ::::::::::::::
>>> /md/distro1(/.*)? <<none>>
>>> /md/distro2(/.*)? <<none>>
>>>
>>> ::::::::::::::
>>> otherdistros.te
>>> ::::::::::::::
>>> policy_module(otherdistros, 0.0.1)
>>>
>>> Building and installing that module should do the trick.
>>>
>>> Paul.
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>>
>> I have blogged on this.
>>
>> http://danwalsh.livejournal.com/38157.html
>
> I used to use semanage for this but I find using local policy modules
> better for maintainability - it's easier to add, remove, and change
> multiple default contexts in one go and it's easy to see what I have
> that's different from the stock policy.
>
> Paul.
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Good point. I wanted to point to different ways of doing the same
thing. What I have not experimented with is, does restorecon stop as
soon as it hits a <<none>> matchpathcon?
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