Daniel J Walsh wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 11/14/2013 09:24 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: >> Miroslav Grepl wrote: >> >>>> New article on opensource.com describing SELinux enforcement in simple >>>> terms. Check it out. >>>> >>>> http://opensource.com/business/13/11/selinux-policy-guide >> >>> I believe it is a great introduction to SELinux. >> >> I liked this. >> >> I also liked the video <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxjenQ31b70> with >> accompanying slides at >> <http://people.redhat.com/tcameron/summit2010/selinux/SELinuxMereMortals.pdf>. >> >> I thought I'd try to move from SELinux permissive mode following the >> advice in this video and slides. >> >> The main problem I met was following sealert advice of the form >> ----------------------------- If you want to allow perl to have search >> access on the tim directory Then you need to change the label on >> /home/tim Do # semanage fcontext -a -t FILE_TYPE '/home/tim' where >> FILE_TYPE is one of the following: etc_t, proc_t, sysfs_t, ... >> devpts_t, var_t, user_home_dir_t, cluster_conf_t, var_t, var_t. >> ----------------------------- >> > > Yes those ones are tough, basically the system is trying to expand the > list of > file types that the application is allowed to write. In this case it > expanded a little too large. > > What was the AVC that caused this? I gave the command [root@grover tim]# sealert -a /var/log/audit/audit.log which was mentioned in the video I cited, and the above was one of many suggestions that were made. The response started with 11 AVC's, which all concerned the same file, this being a sample: **** Invalid AVC allowed in current policy *** type=AVC msg=audit(1330438567.88:108452): avc: denied { getattr } for pid=2567 comm="config" path="/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf" dev=sdb10 ino=3392618 scontext=unconfined_u:system_r:dovecot_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:object_r:usr_t:s0 tclass=file found 11 alerts in /var/log/audit/audit.log Then there was a much longer portion going over different files, giving terse advice of what to do in many cases, but also vague advice of the kind above in other cases. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
