query on SELinux

[Paul Howarth]

Globe Trotter wrote:
> 
> --- Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> wrote:
> 
>> On Tue, 2006-04-04 at 19:17 -0700, Globe Trotter wrote:
>>> Does anyone have any comments on this? I am asking this question, because
>>> wherenever I update SELinux or set permissions, it says something about
>>> permissions and exitence of /usr/local/trotter, not updating context or
>>> something like that.
>>>
>>> Is this something I should worry about: does it make SELinux useless for
>> me?
>>> Many thanks amd best wishes,
>> Not sure exactly what it's complaining about, but try this:
>>
>> # chcon -Rh -t user_home_t /usr/local/trotter
>> # chcon -t user_home_dir_t /usr/local/trotter
>>
>> That should make the file contexts of your home directory the same as
>> they would be if it was under /home.
>>
>> These contexts probably won't survive a relabel, if you were to do one.
>> The way to fix that would depend on which Fedora release you were using.
>>
>> Paul.
>>
> Hi Paul,
> 
> I am using FC5. But what do you do if there are multiple users in the
> /usr/local/homedirectory framework?

Do the same thing for each user.

Or, if you have *only* home directories under /usr/local (i.e. none of 
the /usr/local/bin, /usr/local/lib stuff that most systems have), you 
could just do:

# chcon -Rh -t user_home_t /usr/local/*
# chcon -t user_home_dir_t /usr/local/*

Paul.