On Wed, 2006-05-31 at 10:19, Paul Howarth wrote: > It appears that there is no easy fix for this problem, other than moving > the data somewhere other than under /home: > > http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-selinux-list/2006-May/msg00253.html That's a pity. As I said before, /home is convenient for me since that partition is large and won't ever be formatted during future upgrades or installs. /home/pgsql seemed obvious to me since both the database and the home directories share these requirements. In any case, in your reply to the message linked above, you say: > If it was me I'd just bind mount /home/pgsql on /var/lib/pgsql > and there wouldn't be an issue... And so I wonder: How does bind-mounting help me as regards default contexts? If I place data in /home/pgsql and bind-mount /var/lib/pgsql, then what is the default context for pgsql? It depends on where restorecon was run. If "restorecon -R /home" then pgsql will be set to the wrong context; if "restorecon -R /var/lib" then it will be correct. And if, for some reason, the entire filesystem gets relabelled, how do I know which one it will get? I don't see what bind-mounting gains me anything over my current predicament. Finally, it's working for me now, thanks to you. I will leave it all as is and lurk the selinux list and quietly learn. Perhaps a better solution to the default context issue will be discovered or implemented. And if I'm wrong about the bind-mounting thing then do explain, please!
