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On 07/01/14 16:12, Daniel J Walsh wrote:
> On 07/01/2014 04:47 AM, dE wrote:
>> The default security context of a object also depends on it's class.
>>
>> I was looking at
>> etc/selinux/<SELINUXTYPE>/contexts/files/file_contexts*, but I
>> couldn't see any definition of a class.
>>
>> Also semanage fcontext doesn't have an option define a class. Entries
>> are based only on files and directories.
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> I believe the answer to your question is:
>
> man semanage-fcontext
> ...
>         -f [{a,f,d,c,b,s,l,p}], --ftype [{a,f,d,c,b,s,l,p}]
>                File Type. This is used with fcontext. Requires a file
> type as shown in the mode field by ls, e.g. use 'd' to match only
> directories
>                or  'f'  to  match  only  regular  files. The following
> file type options can be passed: f (regular file),d (directory),c (character
>                device), b (block device),s (socket),l (symbolic link),p
> (named pipe).  If you do not specify  a  file  type,  the  file  type  will
>                default to "all files".

Thanks everyone for clarifying this.

I didnt know there existed man pages for semanage-*. It's not there in 
Fedora 19.