Setting up a samba share?

[Knute Johnson]

>On Mon, 2006-11-06 at 21:52 -0800, Knute Johnson wrote:
>> I'm setting up a samba share on my new FC6 install that will be 
>> public with no password required.  Just like an unmolested Windows 
>> share.
>> 
>> I found an article that said to put the selinux context description 
>> in /etc/selinux/targeted/contexts/files/file_contexts.local.
>> 
>> My shared directory is /var/share.  I put the line:
>> 
>> /var/share(/.*)?     system_u:object_r:samba_share_t
>> 
>> in that file.
>> 
>> Is this the correct way to make this change and make it permanent?  
>> Will this do what it is supposed to do?
>
>Since FC5 the way to do this is not by editing file_contexts.local but
>by using semanage:
>
># semanage fcontext -a -t samba_share_t '/var/share(/.*)?'
>
>Having changed policy by doing this, the context types of the files
>themselves still need changing:
>

semanage just creates the file_contexts.local file with the same 
thing in it that I had.  What difference does it make to edit the 
file or use semanage?

Thanks,

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Knute Johnson
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