I'm copying a file into a VM using virt-copy-in - which is great, but the file is wrongly labeled. How can I fix that?

On Sun, Dec 24, 2017 at 02:15:44PM +0200, Yaniv Kaul wrote: > I'm copying a file into a VM using virt-copy-in - which is great, but the > file is wrongly labeled. > How can I fix that? Hi Yaniv, The easiest thing is to run this after doing the virt-copy-in: virt-customize -a disk.img --selinux-relabel which will run this code: https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/blob/master/ customize/SELinux_relabel.ml#L27 That requires an extra launch of the appliance, so if you were very concerned about doing this most efficiently then you could do something like this instead: guestfish -a disk.img -i <<EOF copy-in files [...] /target/dir selinux-relabel /etc/selinux/targeted/contexts/files/file_contexts / force:true EOF

That isn't quite the same as the virt-customize code above, and in particular it assumes that you're using the "targeted" policy and you don't have the buggy version of RHEL 6, but it's near enough for most purposes. If you want to do any better you'd need to write a custom script in Python or whatever. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~ rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com virt-top is 'top' for virtual machines. Tiny program with many powerful monitoring features, net stats, disk stats, logging, etc. http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top

On Sun, Dec 24, 2017 at 03:59:33PM +0200, Yaniv Kaul wrote: > On Sun, Dec 24, 2017 at 3:49 PM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones(a)redhat.com&gt; > wrote: > > > On Sun, Dec 24, 2017 at 02:15:44PM +0200, Yaniv Kaul wrote: > > > I'm copying a file into a VM using virt-copy-in - which is great, but the > > > file is wrongly labeled. > > > How can I fix that? > > > > Hi Yaniv, > > > > The easiest thing is to run this after doing the virt-copy-in: > > > > virt-customize -a disk.img --selinux-relabel > > > > which will run this code: > > > > https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/blob/master/ > > customize/SELinux_relabel.ml#L27 > > > > That requires an extra launch of the appliance, so if you were very > > concerned about doing this most efficiently then you could do > > something like this instead: > > > > guestfish -a disk.img -i <<EOF > > copy-in files [...] /target/dir > > selinux-relabel /etc/selinux/targeted/contexts/files/file_contexts / force:true In case it's not clear, this parameter ^^^ controls the scope of the relabelling, so you can relabel parts of the filesystem if you want to. It's basically a wrapper around ‘setfiles’: https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/blob/ dab065a8eed6c6d8d9c53956393566812cfe6a2e/daemon/selinux-relabel.c#L87 Rich.

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