edquota cannot open quotafile with "Permission denied"

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Issue

  • edquota fails with the following errors, but the file has right permission.
# edquota -p user1 user2
edquota: Cannot open quotafile /aquota.user: Permission denied
No filesystems with quota detected.
# ls -lZ /boot/aquota.user 
-rw-------. root root unconfined_u:object_r:quota_db_t:s0 /aquota.user

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • quota

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