On Fri, 2009-03-13 at 08:29 -0400, Stephen Smalley wrote: > On Fri, 2009-03-13 at 05:10 -0400, Braden McDaniel wrote: > > I'm trying to let httpd write to a subdirectory of ~/public_html and I'm > > running into SELinux errors on Fedora 10. The error message directs me > > to "man httpd_selinux", which describes several context types. Of > > these, httpd_sys_content_rw_t sounds like what I want; however, chcon > > doesn't seem to know about it: > > > > $ chcon -R httpd_sys_content_rw_t mydir > > chcon: invalid context: httpd_sys_content_rw_t > > You would need to use the "-t" option to specify just the type without > specifying a full security context. Aha. > But you should be able to just run: > restorecon -v mydir That makes the type "httpd_user_content_t", which doesn't let httpd write to the directory. Using "chcon -t" to change the type to httpd_user_content_rw_t does the trick, though. Thanks. -- Braden McDaniel e-mail: <braden@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> <http://endoframe.com> Jabber: <braden@xxxxxxxxxx> -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
