CentOS - May 2018 - Samba HOWTO wiki bug: chcon samba_share_t

In this wiki article:

   https://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/SetUpSamba

?there is a command down in section 2 that gives an error here on CentOS 7:

    $ sudo semanage fcontext ?at samba_share_t /path/to/share
    ?noise noise noise? 
    semanage: error: unrecognized arguments: samba_share_t /path/to/share

That and the following restorecon command can be replaced by a single shorter
command, which also fixes the symptom:

    $ sudo chcon -R -t samba_share_t /path/to/share

On Fri, May 4, 2018 at 12:03 PM, Warren Young <warren at etr-usa.com>
wrote:
> In this wiki article:
>
>    https://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/SetUpSamba
>
> ?there is a command down in section 2 that gives an error here on CentOS 7:
>
>     $ sudo semanage fcontext ?at samba_share_t /path/to/share
>     ?noise noise noise?
>     semanage: error: unrecognized arguments: samba_share_t /path/to/share
>
> That and the following restorecon command can be replaced by a single
shorter command, which also fixes the symptom:
>
>     $ sudo chcon -R -t samba_share_t /path/to/share
Updated the page as suggested. Thanks.

Akemi

On May 4, 2018, at 3:03 PM, Akemi Yagi <amyagi at gmail.com>
wrote:
> 
> On Fri, May 4, 2018 at 12:03 PM, Warren Young <warren at etr-usa.com>
wrote:
>> 
>>    $ sudo chcon -R -t samba_share_t /path/to/share
> 
> Updated the page as suggested. Thanks.
Thanks!

I now see another instance of this in section 3.  Instead of copying the text
verbatim, it should probably be:

    chcon -R -t samba_share_t /mnt/data

?in order to match the text above it.

On 05/04/2018 12:03 PM, Warren Young wrote:
> ?there is a command down in section 2 that gives an error here on CentOS 7:
>
>      $ sudo semanage fcontext ?at samba_share_t /path/to/share
>      ?noise noise noise?
>      semanage: error: unrecognized arguments: samba_share_t /path/to/share
What is "noise" exactly?? I don't get errors from that command:

# semanage fcontext -at samba_share_t /srv/samba
#
> That and the following restorecon command can be replaced by a single
shorter command, which also fixes the symptom:
As others pointed out, chcon is not a replacement for registering a 
persistent file context.

On May 4, 2018, at 5:13 PM, Gordon Messmer <gordon.messmer at gmail.com>
wrote:
> 
> On 05/04/2018 12:03 PM, Warren Young wrote:
>> ?there is a command down in section 2 that gives an error here on
CentOS 7:
>> 
>>     $ sudo semanage fcontext ?at samba_share_t /path/to/share
>>     ?noise noise noise?
>>     semanage: error: unrecognized arguments: samba_share_t
/path/to/share
> 
> What is "noise" exactly?  I don't get errors from that
command:
The full message is:

    usage: semanage [-h]

                   
{import,export,login,user,port,interface,module,node,fcontext,boolean,permissive,dontaudit}
                    ...
    semanage: error: unrecognized arguments: samba_share_t
'/path/to/share(/.*)?'