Re: default and new file contexts

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On 03/25/2013 01:56 PM, m.roth@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 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
> 
Yes.  Unless the file is listed in customizable_types,
/etc/selinux/targeted/contexts/customizable_types
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