Re: Non root user cannot execute semanage, semodule

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On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 8:34 AM, Rahul Jain <erahul29@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Thankyou All,
>
> This community is really awesome.
>
> As suggested by Stephen I used sudo in order to allow a non root user
> execute the priviledged commands like semodule and semanage and protected
> the configuration file using SELinux. Though I tried to tweak the
> policycoreutils also to get the things done but it did not work. The
> reason being, the some intermediate directories that are created when these
> commands are executed. The owner of these directories is root and a non root
> user is not able to access these directories.
>
> For me it was important to allow security officer execute these commands
> because his role entitles him to perform all security policy related tasks.
> Semodule was needed to load the policy modules while semanage was required
> to map the Linux users with the selinux users.
>
> Thanks and Regards
> Rahul Jain
>
>
>

Yeah that makes sense.
glad you up and running.

-- 
Justin P. Mattock

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