[Samba] Need SELinux help

[Toshaan Bharvani | VanTosh]

Todd,


On 16/08/16 07:04, ToddAndMargo via samba wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Fedora Core 24, x64
> samba-4.4.5-1.fc24.x86_64
>
> I am using the following direction to set up SELinux with Samba:
>
> https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Managing_Confined_Services/sect-Managing_Confined_Services-Samba-Configuration_examples.html
>
>
> to set up SELinux with Samba
>
> 1)  I created a directory called /export
>
> # ls -al /export
> total 28
> drwxrwxr-x   7 public users 4096 Aug 15 21:47 .
> dr-xr-xr-x. 21 root   root  4096 Aug 15 21:47 ..
> drwxrwxr-x   2 public users 4096 Aug 15 19:53 accounting
> drwxrwxr-x   2 public users 4096 Aug 15 19:53 facilities
> drwxrwxr-x   2 public users 4096 Aug 15 19:53 maintenance
> drwxrwxr-x   2 public users 4096 Aug 15 19:53 operations
> drwxrwxr-x   2 public users 4096 Aug 15 19:48 public
>
> 2) I ran the following command from the manual above and
> got the following error.
>
> # semanage fcontext -a -t samba_share_t "/export(/.*)?"
> libsemanage.dbase_llist_query: could not query record value (No such
> file or directory).
> FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
>
>
> What do they mean "No such file or directory"?
> What am I doing wrong?
I am presuming the 'export' is seen as a command in place of a folder.
What happens you try the folder 'exports' or 'shares'?
And they do not need to exist to be added to the SELinux fcontext listing.


>
> Many thanks,
> -T
>

Regards,
Toshaan.