[CentOS] Samba HOWTO wiki bug: chcon samba_share_t
Louis Lagendijk
louis at fazant.net
Fri May 4 22:11:57 UTC 2018
On Fri, 2018-05-04 at 14:55 -0700, Akemi Yagi wrote:
> On Fri, May 4, 2018 at 2:26 PM, Warren Young <warren at etr-usa.com>
> wrote:
> > On May 4, 2018, at 3:03 PM, Akemi Yagi <amyagi at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Fri, May 4, 2018 at 12:03 PM, Warren Young <warren at etr-usa.com
> > > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > $ sudo chcon -R -t samba_share_t /path/to/share
> > >
> > > Updated the page as suggested. Thanks.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > I now see another instance of this in section 3. Instead of
> > copying the text verbatim, it should probably be:
> >
> > chcon -R -t samba_share_t /mnt/data
> >
> > …in order to match the text above it.
>
> Warren,
>
> I was just informed that the chcon command your suggested was
> originally there, but it was replaced with the 2 line version
> sometime
> ago. The reason given was "Replace chcon by semanage/restorecon pair
> to survive filesystem relabel".
The comment is correct: chcon will not survive a relabel. You need to
update the database first (semanage fcontext) and then let a relabel
apply the new context.
Louis
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