Sorry for a newbie question. I have never worked with SELinux before.
I am a doctoral student in computer science, and as part of my research project I have to install SELinux. I have a FC2 (2.6.6 kernel) machine. I downloaded, compiled and installed an SELinux-patched 2.6.6 kernel from NSA, then I installed the user utilities (policycoreutils, libselinux, etc -- downloaded from NSA's website as well). Since I have FC2, I am assuming that I don't need to install patched utitilies, since they are now included into FC2. I only have root user at this point, so I didn't edit the default policy file that came with the installation. I just did a 'make relabel' and booted into the SELinux kernel. If I just log in and run, for e.g., "ls -Z" I get the error that the kernel has to support SELinux. If I then cd into /etc/security/selinux/src/policy and do a "make load", then 'ls -Z' or 'id' work properly and show me the context. Now if I reboot, it the system forgets what I just did, and I have to do a 'make load' again.
Something is not starting up at boot, I would guess. I tried 'selinux=1' at boot, but that doesn't change anything.
I would really appreciate it it anyone has any suggestions.
thanks a lot, Olga Gelbart Department of Computer Science The George Washington University
