On Tue, 2008-12-16 at 08:24 -0500, James Laska wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-12-15 at 18:04 -0500, Michael DeHaan wrote:
> > I've now made these changes on the devel branch.
> > 
> > Folks with EL 4 or EL 5 who are interested in contributing some testing 
> > may want to try out Cobbler with SELinux enabled/permissive on EL 4.
> > 
> > There is code in utils.py to remove some hardlinking when needed on EL 4 
> > to enable the restorecon operations to be sent down as needed since 
> > there is no public_content_t type but only tftpdir_t and httpd_sys_content_t
> 
> Using freshly built packages from the devel branch results in a lot of
> chcon failures while attempting to change the context of my nfs mounted
> storage ...
> 
> # cobbler sync
> ...
> chcon operation failed: ['/usr/bin/chcon', '-t', 'public_content_t', 
> '/mnt/engarchive2/released/F-10/GOLD/Fedora/i386/os/images/pxeboot/vmlinuz-PAE']
> /usr/bin/chcon: failed to change context of 
> `/mnt/engarchive2/released/F-8/GOLD/Fedora/ppc/os/ppc/ppc32/vmlinuz' to 
> `system_u:object_r:public_content_t:s0': Read-only file system
> chcon operation failed: ['/usr/bin/chcon', '-t', 'public_content_t', 
> '/mnt/engarchive2/released/F-8/GOLD/Fedora/ppc/os/ppc/ppc32/vmlinuz']
> 
> I have the following SELinux nfs-related booleans [un]set.
> 
> httpd_use_nfs --> on
> nfs_export_all_ro --> on
> nfs_export_all_rw --> on
> qemu_use_nfs --> on
> virt_use_nfs --> off

More info ... 

Unless otherwise specified on the cmdline or in /etc/fstab, I believe
nfs mounts get the context: nfs_t.

Do we need to check if the files are hosted on a local vs remote
filesystem before calling `chcon`?

Thanks,
James

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