[CentOS-docs] Centos SetUpSamba wiki page

Timothy Lee timothy.ty.lee at gmail.com
Thu Mar 22 23:22:59 EDT 2012


Dear Trevor,

On 03/22/2012 11:08 PM, Trevor Hemsley wrote:
> Hi Timothy
>
> I was reading your page on setting up Samba on the CentOS wiki
> http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/SetUpSamba and there is something that
> could be improved there. You use chcon to set up the SELinux contexts
> and this would be wiped out if a filesystem relabel is done. It would be
> better to use
>
> semanage fcontext -a -t samba_share_t '/mnt/data(/.*)?'
> restorecon -R /mnt/data
>
> as that not only sets the context now but also reapplies it if a file
> system relabel is done at some future point (and I believe that
> sometimes an update to the selinux-policy package will force one, though
> very rarely).
>
> Otherwise, good page, thanks!
Thank you for your suggestions.  I've put in your recommended changes.

Regards,
Timothy


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