Craig White wrote: > On Mon, 2008-06-16 at 13:29 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote: >> Craig White wrote: >>> On Mon, 2008-06-16 at 11:39 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote: >>>> Craig White wrote: >>>>> On Sat, 2008-06-14 at 16:51 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote: >>>>>> On Sat, 14 Jun 2008 08:05:56 -0700 >>>>>> Craig White <craigwhite@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>>> I'm a bit confused myself because in essence, httpd is just a proxy to >>>>> the ruby/rails 'mongrel' which is a http server in ruby running the ruby >>>>> processes and is providing dhtml on higher ports as the user. >>>>> >>>>> FWIW...httpd runs as user 'apache' (as ususal) >>>>> mongrels run as regular 'user' (me) >>>>> all files and folders inside the subdirectory we are discussing... >>>>> (/home/craig/svn-new) are owned by me (not root, not apache) >>>> The conventional unix ownership and permissions make very little >>>> difference as far as SELinux is concerned, so although you need to get >>>> them right, they're not going to affect the file contexts needed. >>>> >>>> What context is mongrels running in (try the -Z option of ps)? How does >>>> that process get started (via an initscript?)? >>> ---- >>> yes, a SysV initscript...(running 2 mongrels at present... port & pid >>> #'s 3000 & 3001) >>> >>> # ps auxZ|grep mongrel >>> unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:SystemLow-SystemHigh root 7079 >>> 0.0 0.0 4120 732 pts/6 S+ 05:02 0:00 grep mongrel >>> root:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:-s0:c0.c255 craig 27313 0.0 3.0 45068 >>> 30164 ? Sl Jun15 0:10 /usr/bin/ruby /usr/bin/mongrel_rails start -d >>> -e development -a 127.0.0.1 -c /home/craig/svn-new/th-db/branches/phase5 >>> --user craig --group craig -p 3000 -P log/mongrel.3000.pid -l >>> log/mongrel.3000.log >>> root:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:-s0:c0.c255 craig 27316 0.0 2.9 45052 >>> 29468 ? Sl Jun15 0:10 /usr/bin/ruby /usr/bin/mongrel_rails start -d >>> -e development -a 127.0.0.1 -c /home/craig/svn-new/th-db/branches/phase5 >>> --user craig --group craig -p 3001 -P log/mongrel.3001.pid -l >>> log/mongrel.3001.log >>> ---- >> OK, so they're running as unconfined_t at the moment. >> >>> I could conceivably run the mongrels as user 'apache' except that the >>> permissions on some of the folders would have to be changed because >>> there are some directories that files are written into by the ruby web >>> server...so I try to just run as user. >> Don't change anything about the regular Unix permissions at the moment; >> I guess that for a production server you'd create a separate account for >> the Ruby stuff to run as. >> >> What would be an interesting experiment would be to run the Ruby stuff >> in the same SELinux context as httpd. Try changing the context type of >> /usr/bin/mongrel_rails to httpd_exec_t and restart the services. >> >> # chcon -t httpd_exec_t /usr/bin/mongrel_rails >> >> I'm not sure whether this will make things better or worse but it should >> eliminate some problems for the two httpd-like bits talking to each other. > ---- > that seems to have cleared things up - I had to restart both > mongrel_cluster service and then the httpd service - I did get an error > the first time through but subsequent restarts seems to have cleared it > up. > > Thanks > > Craig > > -- > fedora-selinux-list mailing list > fedora-selinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-selinux-list Is this the correct context for mongrel_rails? IE Is this basically a http web server? How does it get started on boot? -- fedora-selinux-list mailing list fedora-selinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-selinux-list
