Re: default and new file contexts

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Daniel J Walsh wrote:
> On 03/25/2013 10:13 AM, m.roth@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> We've got a scratch directory; in it, any user can write. I've gotten
>> complaints of unlabled, and I found and set them to default_t.
>>
>> Here's the question: if I use semanage to set one of the user
>> subdirectories to, say, default_t, and they try to copy a file that
>> already has a valid context, would that context be changed to default_t,
>> or would it retain its existing context?
>>
> If it is shared by users I would label it something like user_home_t.
>
> cp command adopts the label of the destination parent directory or file
> (Most of the time).
>
> mv command maintains the label of the source.

But if, after this, I do a restorecon, or fixfiles, or autorelabel, will
that change all of them?

      mark

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