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Joshua Enfield
Asked: 2010-07-01 12:07:49 +0800 CST

SELinux symlinks?

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SELinux is not allowing me to change the context of a symlink. I get no errors or anything. It just doesn't change the symlink, which I am guessing means it is resolving the symlink and changing that instead? coderoot is a symlink:

chcon -t httpd_sys_content_t /var/coderoot

This leaves the context of the symlink the same. When my application references the symlink SELinux jumps in and says no. With SElinux off it works fine. How can I fix this?

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  1. Best Answer

    From the chcon(1) man page:

       -h, --no-dereference
          affect symbolic links instead of any referenced file
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