Home directories within /var

[Robert Nichols]

Paul Howarth wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Dec 2009 18:52:02 -0600
> Robert Nichols <rnicholsNOSPAM at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
>> On my system I have home directories in /var/home and bind mounted
>> to /home:
>>
>>     /var/home on /home type none (rw,bind)
>>
>> Is there any way to prevent restorecon on /var from descending into
>> /var/home and destroying the normal home directory file contexts?
>> Reproducing all of file_contexts.homedirs in local policy is of course
>> unmaintainable.
> 
> You can make the file contexts for /var/home match those for /home very
> easily on F-11 onwards:
> 
> # semanage fcontext -a -e /home /var/home
> 
> See http://danwalsh.livejournal.com/2009/04/09/ for Dan's blog on file
> context equivalency.

TYVM.  Perhaps someday the manpage for semanage will include some mention
of that "-e" flag.

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