Relabeling User home directories

[Daniel J Walsh]

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Tony Molloy wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> First of all this is a SElinux question on a CentOS File server rather than 
> Fedora but I don't think that should make any difference. The clients are 
> Fedora.
> 
> For historical reasons we mount our user home directories under /users instead 
> of /home. During a recent installation of CentOS-5 the user home directories 
> appear to have been relabeled. Many now seem to have the type default_t
> 
> drwx------  8237 csim     root:object_r:default_t          x0667617
> 
> If I unmount the users directories and mount them under /home can I use 
> restorecon -v /home to restore the correct file contexts as I understand that 
> SElinux understands /home is for user directories. Also if I can do that will 
> the command understand public_html directories have to be labelled so that 
> apache can access them.

Yes.  restorecon -R -v /home

Should label home dirs correctly and public_html.

SELinux is supposed to figure out that homedirs are mounted under /users
and label that correctly.  Could you give an example of a homedir entry
in /etc/passwd?

genhomedircon is supposed to setup file labeling for alternate home dir
locations.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Tony
> 
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