[CentOS] Samba HOWTO wiki bug: chcon samba_share_t

[Akemi Yagi]

On Fri, May 4, 2018 at 3:11 PM, Louis Lagendijk <louis at fazant.net> wrote:
> 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

Thanks for the input. Reverted the change.

Akemi