On Fri, 11 Jul 2008 16:57:57 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote: > Carl D. Roth wrote: >> On Fri, 11 Jul 2008 08:14:21 -0700, Dan Thurman wrote: >> >>> I am not sure what this is, and /.xauth does not exist, but here is >>> the log: >>> ================================ >>> Summary: >>> >>> SELinux is preventing su (initrc_su_t) "execute" to ./xauth >>> (xauth_exec_t). >>> >>> Detailed Description: >>> >>> >> I had that happen on one of my systems too. It was starting a service >> in init.d that changed userid's via 'su'. Since it was a headless >> application (i.e. daemon) I chose to ignore the errors as follows: >> >> gen_require(` >> type initrc_su_t; >> type sshd_t; >> type xauth_exec_t; >> ') >> >> dontaudit initrc_su_t sshd_t:key { search }; dontaudit initrc_su_t >> xauth_exec_t:file { execute }; >> >> As you can see, the 'su' session also tried to grovel around for SSH >> keys. > > Does it behave better if you use "runuser" instead of "su"? > > Paul. That fixed it, thanks. C -- fedora-selinux-list mailing list fedora-selinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-selinux-list