Dear List members

[tarnait]

Hi,

I'm new to SElinux and I'm a bit careful with it, so up till now I want to run it
in permissive mode. After reading a lot's of docs I fixed most of my problems, but
there are still some errors in audit.log. Now I would like to ask you to review this
errors and give me feedback if this rules are safe to add to my policy or not. In summary
is my understanding correct that:

O auditctl, ifconfig, iptables-restor, dmesg and pppd try to write to the console,
O pppd searches something in the root home directory ??!,
O and iptables writes to a socket?

if I would add this policy to the module wouldn't it be too much (e.g. could for
example pppd access all my files?)

Thanks for the answers,
Kind Regards, Tibor


type=AVC msg=audit(1253870573.883:13): avc:  denied  { read write } for  pid=877
comm="auditctl" name="console" dev=sda1 ino=15533
scontext=system_u:system_r:auditctl_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:object_r:file_t:s0
tclass=chr_file
        Was caused by:
                Missing type enforcement (TE) allow rule.

                You can use audit2allow to generate a loadable module to allow this
access.

type=AVC msg=audit(1253870574.190:15): avc:  denied  { read write } for  pid=918
comm="ifconfig" name="console" dev=sda1 ino=15533
scontext=system_u:system_r:ifconfig_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:object_r:file_t:s0
tclass=chr_file
        Was caused by:
                Missing type enforcement (TE) allow rule.

                You can use audit2allow to generate a loadable module to allow this
access.

type=AVC msg=audit(1253870574.264:16): avc:  denied  { read write } for  pid=921
comm="pppd" name="console" dev=sda1 ino=15533
scontext=system_u:system_r:pppd_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:object_r:file_t:s0 tclass=chr_file
        Was caused by:
                Missing type enforcement (TE) allow rule.

                You can use audit2allow to generate a loadable module to allow this
access.

type=AVC msg=audit(1253870574.325:17): avc:  denied  { search } for  pid=921
comm="pppd" name="root" dev=sda1 ino=12
scontext=system_u:system_r:pppd_t:s0
tcontext=unconfined_u:object_r:unconfined_home_dir_t:s0 tclass=dir
        Was caused by:
                Missing type enforcement (TE) allow rule.

                You can use audit2allow to generate a loadable module to allow this
access.

type=AVC msg=audit(1253870574.401:18): avc:  denied  { read write } for  pid=929
comm="iptables-restor" name="console" dev=sda1 ino=15533
scontext=system_u:system_r:iptables_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:object_r:file_t:s0
tclass=chr_file
        Was caused by:
                Missing type enforcement (TE) allow rule.

                You can use audit2allow to generate a loadable module to allow this
access.

type=AVC msg=audit(1253870576.482:19): avc:  denied  { read write } for  pid=1087
comm="dmesg" name="console" dev=sda1 ino=15533
scontext=system_u:system_r:dmesg_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:object_r:file_t:s0
tclass=chr_file
        Was caused by:
                Missing type enforcement (TE) allow rule.

                You can use audit2allow to generate a loadable module to allow this
access.

type=AVC msg=audit(1253870578.829:20): avc:  denied  { read write } for  pid=1242
comm="iptables" path="socket:[3131]" dev=sockfs ino=3131
scontext=system_u:system_r:iptables_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:system_r:pppd_t:s0
tclass=packet_socket
        Was caused by:
                Missing type enforcement (TE) allow rule.

                You can use audit2allow to generate a loadable module to allow this
access.