VIM changing file SE context
I don't know why this works but I've wasted pretty much the whole day trying to put my ambition against my ignorance. If you encounter a problem with vim saving all your web files with a context type of user_home_t instead of inherited httpd_sys_content_t here's how I fixed mine (after much research, uninstallation and recompilation from sources, and eventually brute force one by one removal of all .vim/*): Simply removing the following two lines from my .vimrc fixed the issue: set backupdir=~/.vim/backup set directory=~/.vim/backup Why creating the backup was changing my file selinux context? Why only on my freshly installed CentOS 6? I'm tired, and even though I won, I am not enlightened. Much like everything in real life.