Is this a bug? It's certainly a real inconsistancy, IMO. I just built a user's workstation, new, as fc-17. ll -Z /usr/sbin/sshd -rwxr-xr-x. root root system_u:object_r:sshd_exec_t:s0 /usr/sbin/sshd* ll -Z /etc/ssh/ drwxr-xr-x. root root system_u:object_r:etc_t:s0 ./ drwxr-xr-x. root root system_u:object_r:etc_t:s0 ../ -rw-------. root root system_u:object_r:etc_t:s0 moduli -rw-r--r--. root root system_u:system_u:etc_t:s0 ssh_config -rw-------. root root system_u:system_u:etc_t:s0 sshd_config -rw-------. root root system_u:system_u:etc_t:s0 sshd_config.rpmnew -rw-------. root root system_u:system_u:sshd_key_t:s0 ssh_host_dsa_key -rw-r--r--. root root system_u:system_u:sshd_key_t:s0 ssh_host_dsa_key.pub -rw-------. root root system_u:system_u:sshd_key_t:s0 ssh_host_key -rw-r--r--. root root system_u:system_u:sshd_key_t:s0 ssh_host_key.pub -rw-------. root root system_u:system_u:sshd_key_t:s0 ssh_host_rsa_key -rw-r--r--. root root system_u:system_u:sshd_key_t:s0 ssh_host_rsa_key.pub -rw-r--r--. root root system_u:system_u:etc_t:s0 ssh_known_hosts sealert tells me that the ssh_host_*_key should be etc_t, not, as I set it, sshd_key_t. mark -- selinux mailing list selinux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/selinux