Daniel J Walsh wrote:
On 03/25/2013 10:13 AM, m.roth(a)5-cent.us wrote:
> We've got a scratch directory; in it, any user can write. I've gotten
> complaints of unlabled, and I found and set them to default_t.
>
> Here's the question: if I use semanage to set one of the user
> subdirectories to, say, default_t, and they try to copy a file that
> already has a valid context, would that context be changed to default_t,
> or would it retain its existing context?
>
If it is shared by users I would label it something like user_home_t.
cp command adopts the label of the destination parent directory or file
(Most of the time).
mv command maintains the label of the source.
But if, after this, I do a restorecon, or fixfiles, or autorelabel, will
that change all of them?
mark