-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 11/14/2013 10:45 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: > 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. > Looks like you had a mislabeled file in /etc. Did it suggest restorecon as its #1 option? restorecon -R -v /etc/dovecot -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.15 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlKFC1MACgkQrlYvE4MpobPv2wCgsdzQMkmpTn007vzS+S3jWDJL 3YYAoIcE1caLvg08ofkvzUg4x3VULovC =im0Q -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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
