selinux and mounted partitions

Daniel J Walsh dwalsh at redhat.com
Wed Mar 31 14:25:55 UTC 2004


Thomas Molina wrote:

>I have my system set up for testing and easy swap between setups.  I put 
>the root partition on one ide drive (/dev/hda) and /home and /usr/local on 
>a second ide drive (/dev/hdd).  /dev/hda is in a removable caddy, allowing 
>me to swap in a known stable setup or change between several test setups.  
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>How possible is it that I will run into trouble when I install an 
>selinux-enabled setup, swap out to my stable caddy, and then swap back in 
>the selinux setup?  If so, what could I do to minimize the problems?
>
>Thanks.
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You want to setup your "selinux" drive to use context mounts for your 
homedir.

Something like
context=system_u:object_r:user_home_t

So when it gets mounted you would have access to it.

/usr/local you would probably mount
context=system_u:object_r:usr_t
???


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