Re: problem setting the security context of directories vs files

[Daniel J Walsh <dwalsh@redhat.com>]

James Carter wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-06-19 at 09:34 -0700, Clarkson, Mike R (US SSA) wrote:
>   
>> I'm having trouble setting the security context of directories using
>> file contexts. It seems to be working fine for files, but not
>> directories.
>>
>> I have a module named import. Here is a copy of my import.fc file:
>>
>> /m2ds/import	--	gen_context(system_u:object_r:import_dir_t,s0)
>> /m2ds/import/datasources	--
>> gen_context(system_u:object_r:import_dir_t,s0)
>> /m2ds/import/stage	--
>> gen_context(system_u:object_r:import_stage_t,s0)
>> /m2ds/import/junk	--
>> gen_context(system_u:object_r:import_dir_t,s0)
>> /home/m2/SimulatedImport/bin/SimulatedImport	--
>> gen_context(system_u:object_r:import_exec_t,s0)
>> /home/m2/SimulatedImport/bin/SimulatedImport_Server	--
>> gen_context(system_u:object_r:import_exec_t,s0)
>>
>>
>>     
> Use "-d" for directories, instead of "--".
>
> The obscure options available to use are:
> -b	block
> -c	character
> -d 	directory
> -p	pipe
> -l	link
> -s	socket
> --	regular
>
>
>   
"  " matches all.
"-" followed by the first character output by 'ls -l'.

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