A question about roles
 

Feel free to point me to a link that discusses this, but how *does*
selinux decide on roles when I'm using restorecon? Does it use the context
of the directory above it, or that it's in, or is there something else?

mark

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A question about roles
 

On Tue, 5 Jul 2011 10:38:44 -0400, wrote:
> Feel free to point me to a link that discusses this, but how *does*
> selinux decide on roles when I'm using restorecon? Does it use the
> context
> of the directory above it, or that it's in, or is there something
> else?
>
> mark
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My understanding is that restorecon uses the file contexts defined in
policy and if you look at these
/etc/selinux/policyname/contexts/files/file_contexts you will see it
defines a full context including role not just type. So the role from
restorecon and matchpathcon come from those files.

Dave
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