SELinux Problems (Was: [CentOS] Forum Decorum: a reminder seems appropriate.)

[Rodrigo Barbosa]

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On Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 08:47:16PM -0700, Craig White wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 22:43 -0500, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote:
> > On Thu, 2006-03-30 at 00:21 -0300, Rodrigo Barbosa wrote:
> > > In one of my CentOS machines (originally installed with 4.0, not 4.3),
> > > several of my files lost their selinux context information. Several
> > > others are with wrong values.
> > > 
> > > Is there a way to restore the original selinux context on these files ?
> > > Maybe using RPM (even tho I don't think the value is stored on the
> > > RPM database, I'm not sure).
> > 
> > fixfiles relabel
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> that might be the mallet when all it needs is a little tap.

Not in my case. I mean, even /bin/bash was with wrong contexts until
a few days ago. And /etc/passwd :)

> that also requires a reboot doesn't it?

Not likely. I mean, yes, it would be recomended, but I'm pretty good
as changing things without needing to reboot, and I'm daring enough to
do it :) After all, it is not like this is an important machine. It is
just my company main internet server :)

[]s

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Rodrigo Barbosa <rodrigob at suespammers.org>
"Quid quid Latine dictum sit, altum viditur"
"Be excellent to each other ..." - Bill & Ted (Wyld Stallyns)

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