-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 04/02/2012 10:42 AM, Maria Iano wrote: > I'm confused about a situation where I'm getting denied avc messages even > though there is an allow rule in place. What am I missing? > > This is on RHEL 5.8 using the targeted policy. Here's an example. I have > this avc message from this morning: > > type=AVC msg=audit(1333372681.227:20002): avc: denied { append } for > pid=3480 comm="vsftpd" > path="/LTS/eng-ng/snip/2012/03/20/STORY_Letters_for_Sun._3-4_1_66_610389Z/IMG_Cartoon_for_3-4.jpg_1_1_8F1363GR/IMG_Cartoon_for_3-4.jpg_1_1_8F1363GR.xml" > > dev=dm-8 ino=227640612 scontext=system_u:system_r:ftpd_t:s0 > tcontext=system_u:object_r:public_content_t:s0 tclass=file > > but when I do sesearch it shows a matching allow rule: > > # sesearch -s ftpd_t -t public_content_t -c file -p append -a Found 1 av > rules: allow ftpd_t public_content_t : file { ioctl read write create > getattr setattr lock append unlink link rename }; > > Found 5 role allow rules: allow system_r sysadm_r ; allow user_r sysadm_r > ; allow user_r system_r ; allow sysadm_r user_r ; allow sysadm_r system_r > ; > > Thanks for any help you can give, Maria > > -- selinux mailing list selinux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/selinux If you want to make this work, you should label the content as public_content_rw_t and then turn on allow_ftpd_anon_write boolean. man ftpd_selinux /SHARING -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk95yRAACgkQrlYvE4MpobMegQCg4/xlgVh8EQwhleE6O8e5n3VN PKYAoL8la9SAVDzkNcHNvhYOjMkWTky/ =LOFt -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- selinux mailing list selinux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/selinux