RE: Proprietary telnet daemon fails login when SELinux is enabled

[Dave Stoner]

Many thanks to you all on this subject. The Fedora SELinux User Guide suggested by
Tristan:

http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/13/html/Security-Enhanced_Linu...

was particularly useful, wish I had found that a week earlier. Coverage of the policy
language at:

http://selinuxproject.org/page/PolicyLanguage

Was useful. And the suggestions for applying the telnetd_exec_t type to my executable took
me forward. I then ran into other problems, like write access to files. It seems to me at
this time that I need to set up profiles for the whole of our comms product which looks
like being a project for the next release unfortunately.

Once again, thanks for your assistance.

Dave. 

On Thu, 2012-07-26 at 08:52 -0500, Ted Toth wrote:
>  You could try using the exist telnet policy in ref policy by chconing
>
>  your executable to telnetd_exec_t. However depending on what your 
>  custom telnet daemon does you may still get AVCs.
>  
>  Ted
>  
I agree. i am not familiar with telnet but it might also need pam/pam_selinux to tell
telnet in what context the user should log in.

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