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samba_selinux - Security Enhanced Linux Policy for Samba
Security-Enhanced Linux secures the Samba server via flexible mandatory access control.
SELinux requires files to have an extended attribute to define the file type. Policy governs the access daemons have to these files. If you want to share files other than home directories, those files must be labeled samba_share_t. So if you created a special directory /var/eng, you would need to label the directory with the chcon tool.
If you want to share files with multiple domains (Apache, FTP, rsync, Samba), you can set a file context of public_content_t and public_content_rw_t. These context allow any of the above domains to read the content. If you want a particular domain to write to the public_content_rw_t domain, you must set the appropriate boolean. allow_DOMAIN_anon_write. So for samba you would execute:
setsebool -P allow_smbd_anon_write=1
SELinux policy is customizable based on least access required. So by default SELinux policy turns off SELinux sharing of home directories and the use of Samba shares from a remote machine as a home directory.
setsebool -P samba_enable_home_dirs 1
setsebool -P use_samba_home_dirs 1
This manual page was written by Dan Walsh <dwalsh@redhat.com>.
| 17 Jan 2005 | dwalsh@redhat.com |