Bug 371981

Summary:	Typo in section 18.10 may cause confusion
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5	Reporter:	Troels Arvin <troels>
Component:	doc-Virtualization_Guide	Assignee:	Christopher Curran <ccurran>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Don Domingo <ddomingo>
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Version:	5.0	Keywords:	Documentation, Reopened
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Description Troels Arvin 2007-11-08 22:48:29 UTC

At
https://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-5-manual/en-US/RHEL510/Virtualization_Guide/ch-virt-selinux-considerations.html
there is a recipie for making a block device (such as a logical volume) ready
for xen guest usage. One of the steps is described as:
semanage fcontext -a -t xen_image _t -f -b /dev/sda2

However, the space between "xen_image" and "_t" makes the command fail, and the
problem is hard to spot.

Comment 1 Christopher Curran 2008-01-29 05:12:14 UTC

This bug has occurred in an older version of the Virtualization Guide. The new
version of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Virtualization Guide will not be based
on this version. The Virtualization Guide will be rewritten and re-based off the
present Virtualization Cookbook.

We may not have time to fix this bug in previous versions.

Comment 2 Troels Arvin 2008-07-22 07:12:24 UTC

This bug was recently closed, assumingly because the latest version of the
virtualization guide was fixed.
However, the exact same bug exists in the later version of the guide! (This
time, the relevant section is numbered 29.9):
https://www.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5.2/html/Virtualization/sect-Virtualization-How_To_troubleshoot_Red_Hat_Virtualization-SELinux_considerations.html

Please: It's a one-character fix, which can really save time people who aren't
proficient in SELinux.

Comment 3 Christopher Curran 2008-11-07 01:37:59 UTC

Turns out this isn't the right way to manage SELinux contexts with virtualization. The entire section is being rewritten. Thank you for your diligence in spotting the bug, twice :)