On Fri, Nov 9, 2018 at 1:46 AM Rick Stevens <ricks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > >>>> If disabling SELinux fixes the connection issue, I'd sure-as-tootin' > >>>> file a bugzilla about it. > >>> I need to remove this phrase from my "it goes without saying" list. :-) > >>> > >>> As I've said before "I" haven't had an case where "Permissive" didn't reveal the issue. > >>> > >>> I have been bitten by cases where modules are marked "Do Not Audit" such that an selinux > >>> AVC blocks an operation but does so silently. > >> And I've hit those too, but again, there are certain things that > >> "permissive" still blocks. You get the denial but it still blocks. I'll > >> be interested in seeing if a full SELinux disable permits the thing to > >> work. That'd prove it one way or another. > > > > Yes, as I pointed out elsewhere, a bit of research (that dirty word) reveals.... > > > > When we said that running in permissive mode has the system run as if SELinux was not > > enabled, we weren't really lying... well, perhaps a bit. > > > > There is the matter of SELinux-aware applications. These are applications that know about > > SELinux on a system, and behave differently when SELinux is enabled or not. Most of these > > applications however do not change their behavior based on the permissive or enforcing > > mode - only if SELinux is truly disabled. But that does mean that running your system in > > permissive might still have applications behave as if SELinux was in enforcing mode, or at > > least behave differently than when SELinux is disabled. > > Thanks for finding that, Ed. So it may be strongswan or stroke at fault > and not SELinux. But the point is, "permissive" != "enforcing without > blocking". Rick is totally right: With Selinux disabled, the L2TP connection is successfully established! I have meanwhile filed a bug at Bugzilla against selinux-policy. Thanks for the great help you offered me! Paul _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx