Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 291201
hal does not set default selinux context on USB disk addition
Last modified: 2013-03-05 22:51:54 EST
When adding a USB disk with a ext3 filesystem to a enforcing SELinux box it has the default file context of file_t, which should not happen. In my case I added a USB disk and wanted my webserver to access it with a php app. I was getting selinux denials until I ran chcon -R -t httpd_sys_content_t PATHTODEV After talking with Dan Walsh he suggested that it would make more sense to have hal "do the right thing" wrt to context. He is cc:ed on this bug.
This is actually something we should handle better. Can we check if the file system supports XATTRS. If it does, check to see if file context is not file_t. If file_t mount with some default context usbfs_t? If not file_t mount normal.
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