Security alert message on startup

Stephen Smalley sds at epoch.ncsc.mil
Thu Oct 21 14:31:01 UTC 2004


On Thu, 2004-10-21 at 10:26, Demond James wrote:
> This has been happening for a while but I haven't seen it reported here.
> 
>  kernel: Security Scaffold v1.0.0 initialized
>  kernel: SELinux:  Initializing.
>  kernel: SELinux:  Starting in permissive mode
>  kernel: There is already a security framework initialized, 
> register_security failed.
>  kernel: selinux_register_security:  Registering secondary module 
> capability

That's not truly an error; it just reflects the fact that the capability
module couldn't register as the primary security module (due to SELinux
having already done so) and falling back as a secondary module.

-- 
Stephen Smalley <sds at epoch.ncsc.mil>
National Security Agency




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