Hi Dan , Here is the related AVC denial type=AVC msg=audit(1369177581.853:57912): avc: denied { create } for pid=18778 comm="usermod" name="passwd+" scontext=specialuser_u:system_r:pwrecoveryd_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:object_r:etc_t:s0 tclass=file type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1369177581.853:57912): arch=40000003 syscall=5 success=yes exit=5 a0=bff19038 a1=8241 a2=1b6 a3=9df3670 items=2 ppid=18765 pid=18778 auid=503 uid=0 gid=0 euid=0 suid=0 fsuid=0 egid=0 sgid=0 fsgid=0 tty=tty1 ses=1624 comm="usermod" exe="/usr/sbin/usermod" subj=specialuser_u:system_r:pwrecoveryd_t:s0 key=(null) type=CWD msg=audit(1369177581.853:57912): cwd="/home/pwrecovery" type=PATH msg=audit(1369177581.853:57912): item=0 name="/etc/" inode=3103841 dev=08:01 mode=040755 ouid=0 ogid=0 rdev=00:00 obj=system_u:object_r:etc_t:s0type=PATH msg=audit(1369177581.853:57912): item=1 name="/etc/passwd+" inode=3105686 dev=08:01 mode=0100000 ouid=0 ogid=0 rdev=00:00 obj=system_u:object_r:etc_t:s0 And we are not using kerberos for any authentication on our system. Thanks, Anamitra On 5/22/13 10:04 AM, "Daniel J Walsh" <dwalsh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >Hash: SHA1 > >On 05/21/2013 02:04 PM, Anamitra Dutta Majumdar (anmajumd) wrote: >> Hi Dan, >> >> We added the domain_obj_id_change_exemption(pwrecoveryd_t) to our src >> module but no luck. >> >> And also our app does not do a setfscreatecon() call however from the >> syslogs we found Calls to setfscreate() by our app. >> >> Is there a way to look at the constraints on a RHEL5 box using seinfo. >> >> As indicated earlier in the email thread , the seinfo command on RHEL5 >>does >> not have the "--constrain" option. >> >> >> Thanks, Anamitra >> > >Could you attach your current AVC messages? Are you using kerberos >libraries? >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >Version: GnuPG v1.4.13 (GNU/Linux) >Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ > >iEYEARECAAYFAlGc+pwACgkQrlYvE4MpobN/6QCgtqqBj0lc0PJQqp7gIGUNwB+N >ptkAoKu36vK2vcqUgymCVyNbQ9Va5hYh >=+6sy >-----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- selinux mailing list selinux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/selinux