Samba file server

[Karsten Wade]

On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 13:29 -0700, Ivan Gyurdiev wrote:
> > You have /root on this share?  Interesting.  I'm not sure you can do
> > what I describe below in /root.
> 
> No I don't. That's what the avc output says. I have no idea why it says
> that - I guess it prints the path relative to the volume mount point, 
> not to the global /.

Right, it does.  I was blurry eyed this morning. :) I thought I
understood what was happening to you.  Are you running the strict or
rawhide policy?  Samba wasn't covered in the targeted policy for FC3,
so /usr/sbin/smbd wouldn't have the type smb_t under that policy

> > Try relabeling the portions of /data that you want to have
> > user_home_dir_t and user_home_t:
> > 
> > chcon -t user_home_dir_t /data/smb
> > cd /data/smb
> > chcon -R -r user_home_t ./*
> 
> That sounds like a hack. This isn't a home directory so why
> should I label it as such. It's a bunch of common files.
> In addition to that I want home directories under /home.
> Since smbd currently fails to read even those, how would labeling
> /data user_home_t help?

Sorry, I misread your intent, I thought your task was mounting home
directories.

I don't have a modern strict or rawhide targeted policy installed
anywhere right now and I would need that to analyze what the policy is
regulating against what you are trying to do.

> Part of the problem in my mind is that I do not know what
> the SElinux types are, which ones I need to do what I want,
> and how to add new ones to perform this simple task. 

In the targeted policy, you won't have to worry about that.  Choosing to
run the strict or rawhide policy puts you in an area that is more
complex.  If you accept that complexity, you accept that you are going
to need to customize policy or file bugs/feature requests (as Dan Walsh
requested.)  The documentation is catching up with the code.  Slowly. :/

- Karsten
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