sefcontext: Improve documentation (#42416)

* sefcontext: Improve documentation

* Clarify why this module does not apply changes to filesystems

* Fix

* More clarity
pull/42439/merge
Dag Wieers 6 years ago committed by GitHub
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#!/usr/bin/python
# (c) 2016, Dag Wieers <dag@wieers.com>
# Copyright: (c) 2016, Dag Wieers (@dagwieers) <dag@wieers.com>
# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see COPYING or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
from __future__ import absolute_import, division, print_function
__metaclass__ = type
ANSIBLE_METADATA = {'metadata_version': '1.1',
'status': ['preview'],
'supported_by': 'community'}
DOCUMENTATION = r'''
---
module: sefcontext
@ -24,11 +22,22 @@ options:
target:
description:
- Target path (expression).
type: str
required: yes
aliases: [ path ]
ftype:
description:
- File type.
- The following file type options can be passed;
C(a) for all files,
C(b) for block devices,
C(c) for character devices,
C(d) for directories,
C(f) for regular files,
C(l) for symbolic links,
C(p) for named pipes,
C(s) for socket files.
type: str
default: a
setype:
description:
@ -37,26 +46,34 @@ options:
seuser:
description:
- SELinux user for the specified target.
type: str
selevel:
description:
- SELinux range for the specified target.
type: str
aliases: [ serange ]
state:
description:
- Desired boolean value.
- Whether the SELinux file context must be C(absent) or C(present).
type: str
choices: [ absent, present ]
default: present
reload:
description:
- Reload SELinux policy after commit.
- Note that this does not apply SELinux file contexts to existing files.
type: bool
default: 'yes'
notes:
- The changes are persistent across reboots
- The changes are persistent across reboots.
- The M(sefcontext) module does not modify existing files to the new
SELinux context(s), so it is advisable to first create the SELinux
file contexts before creating files, or run C(restorecon) manually
for the existing files that require the new SELinux file contexts.
- Not applying SELinux fcontexts to existing files is a deliberate
decision as it would be unclear what reported changes would entail
to, and there's no guarantee that applying SELinux fcontext does
not pick up other unrelated prior changes.
requirements:
- libselinux-python
- policycoreutils-python
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'''
EXAMPLES = r'''
# Allow apache to modify files in /srv/git_repos
- sefcontext:
- name: Allow apache to modify files in /srv/git_repos
sefcontext:
target: '/srv/git_repos(/.*)?'
setype: httpd_git_rw_content_t
state: present
- name: Apply new SELinux file context to filesystem
command: restorecon -irv /srv/git_repos
'''
RETURN = r'''

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