Mastering Linux Security and Hardening - Second Edition

Configuring the Booleans

Realistically, you'll likely never have reason to allow users to serve web content out of their home directories. It's much more probable that you'll set up something like a Samba server, which would allow users on Windows machines to use their graphical Windows Explorer to access their home directories on Linux servers. But if you set up a Samba server and don't do anything with SELinux, users will complain about how they don't see any of their files in their home directories of the Samba server. Because you're the proactive type and you want to avoid the pain of listening to complaining users, you'll surely just go ahead and configure SELinux to allow the Samba daemon to access users' home directories. You might ...