I recently switched from a targeted-mls policy to the RHEL5.1 mls policy. I found that "newrole -r sysadm" failed in enforcing mode, even though my selinux user was "root". I had to add "files_search_default(newrole_t)" and "files_getattr_default_dirs(newrole_t)" to the selinuxutil.te file to allow newrole to getattr and search the /tmp-inst directory (type default_t). This was happening even with the read_default_t boolean set to true. Here are the avc denial messages that I was getting: type=AVC msg=audit(1196385320.559:722): avc: denied { getattr } for pid=5092 comm="newrole" path="/tmp-inst" dev=sda1 ino=5341337 scontext=root:staff_r:newrole_t:s0-s4:c0.c255 tcontext=system_u:object_r:default_t:s0 tclass=dir type=AVC msg=audit(1196385320.559:723): avc: denied { search } for pid=5092 comm="newrole" name="tmp-inst" dev=sda1 ino=5341337 scontext=root:staff_r:newrole_t:s0-s4:c0.c255 tcontext=system_u:object_r:default_t:s0 tclass=dir I'm assuming this should have worked out of the box without having to add these rules. Is there some configuration step that I missed? Thanks -- This message was distributed to subscribers of the selinux mailing list. If you no longer wish to subscribe, send mail to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the words "unsubscribe selinux" without quotes as the message.