Re: SELinux is preventing /usr/bin/chcon "mac_admin" access

["James B. Byrne" <byrnejb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, December 20, 2011 14:42, Daniel J Walsh wrote:
>
> On 12/20/2011 07:33 PM, James B. Byrne wrote:
>>
>> # grep -R chcon /etc/rc.d # ps -eZ | grep initrc
>> system_u:system_r:initrc_t:s0    1211 ?        00:00:01
>> miniserv.pl
>>
>> No chcon found in /etc/rc.d
>>
>> miniserv.pl is the Webmin httpd server.  Is this causing
>> the problem?
>>
> It could be.  Basically a program running as initrc_t
> executed the chcon command, probably mistakenly thinking
> it is fixing an SELinux problem. but it is using an
> invalid context.

I do not think that this is a webmin problem as I have
webmin also running on the kvm host and that server does
not report the mac_admin chcon error.  Both the host and
the guest are running the same version of CentOS (6.1).

I will keep looking.

Thank you for the assistance.  It is always useful to
learn how to properly use a few more commands.

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