On Wed, 2006-02-08 at 14:32 +0100, Göran Uddeborg wrote: > What could cause the context shown with "ls" and the context reported > for an denied AVC check to differ? > > After a recent upgrade, Samba stopped working for us. Trying > smbclient user adb is not allowed to access it's home directory. From > an strace of smbd I see that a stat() call fails: > > 8307 stat64("/home/adb", 0xbff08334) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied) > > I believe I found the reason in audit.log: > > type=AVC msg=audit(1139403413.095:1782): avc: denied { search } for pid=8647 comm="smbd" name="home" dev=hda2 ino=966657 scontext=root:system_r:smbd_t tcontext=system_u:object_r:home_root_t tclass=dir > type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1139403413.095:1782): arch=40000003 syscall=195 success=no exit=-13 a0=90f7110 a1=bff08334 a2=5baff4 a3=bff08334 items=1 pid=8647 auid=504 uid=734 gid=0 euid=734 suid=0 fsuid=734 egid=734 sgid=734 fsgid=734 comm="smbd" exe="/usr/sbin/smbd" > type=CWD msg=audit(1139403413.095:1782): cwd="/" > type=PATH msg=audit(1139403413.095:1782): item=0 name="/home/adb" flags=1 inode=966657 dev=03:02 mode=040755 ouid=0 ogid=0 rdev=00:00 If you look closely at the AVC audit message (which admittedly is inscrutable ;), you'll see that the component on which search failed was for "home", not "/home/adb". You have to be able to search /home to reach /home/adb. Try 'man samba_selinux' and following the instructions there for modifying the relevant boolean. -- Stephen Smalley National Security Agency -- fedora-selinux-list mailing list fedora-selinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-selinux-list