Mike wrote: > I have a question related to something I had not thought about before... > > I have an external USB drive that has been used for quite some time as a > backup drive attached to a machine that has SELinux disabled. Other machines > in the LAN are backed up to the same external drive using rsync to the machine > on which the external drive is attached. So there are no security contexts > for files on the backup drive. > > Some of the other local machines are now upgraded to F9 running SElinux enabled, > but of course the backups produce files on the external drive without any > SELinux context information, since the machine that writes then has SELinux > disabled! > > So the question arises - if the main machine is then upgraded to F9 with > SELinux enabled - what will happen to backup files when the original external > drive is plugged in and used? > > Will the filesystem on the external drive need to be relabelled once the machine > on which it is attached has been upgraded? If so what is the cleanest and safest > way to get the whole system using SELinux? > > > You can easily lay context down by running restorecon on the USB drive at the mountpoint. Or just set it up to mount the disk with a countext. Something like system_u:object_r:removable_t:s0. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines