[Thincrust-devel] selinux security context

[Bryan Kearney]

Kay Williams wrote:
> I am experimenting with appliance-creator following instructions at 
> http://www.thincrust.org/tooling.html. Very cool!
> 
> One issue I ran into has to do with the selinux contexts. I created an 
> image in my user home folder.  When I tried to run launch it using 
> virt-image, selinux complained.  After manually changing the context to 
> virt_image_t, all was well.
> 
> Would it make sense for appliance-creator to automatically set the 
> selinux context to created images?


This is a good question. I would like to research this a bit to see if 
we should force typing the files, or if we should make it an on/off 
option. I need to research SELinux a bit to ask intelligently on the 
et-mgmt-tools list.

I will do so, and get back to this list in a day or so.

-- bk