Question on semanage fcontext -a

[Paul Howarth]

ttaylor wrote:
> Does anything special have to be done to cause SELinux to start using newly
> added local filecontexts?  What I'm finding is that if I use semanage
> fcontext -a to add a local filecontext definition, it is not used by
> restorecon unless I specify the "-F" option.  Without the "-F" option,
> restorecon -vv <file_path> gives the following message:
> 
> /sbin/restorecon: <file_path> not reset customized by admin to
> <current_context>
> 
> but restorecon -vv -F <file_path> gives this:
> 
> /sbin/restorecon reset <file_path> context <current_context>-><new_context>

This is probably because <current_context> is a customizable type like 
httpd_sys_content_t; objects with these types don't get reset by 
restorecon unless you use -F. I'm not sure how to find out which types 
are customizable off the top of my head though.

Paul.