diff --git a/private/recovery_persist.te b/private/recovery_persist.te
index 3c37d2b..1fdd758 100644
--- a/private/recovery_persist.te
+++ b/private/recovery_persist.te
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-# type_transition must be private policy the domain_trans rules could stay
-# public, but conceptually should go with this
+typeattribute recovery_persist coredomain;
+
 init_daemon_domain(recovery_persist)
 
 # recovery_persist is not allowed to write anywhere other than recovery_data_file