Developers of packages please pay attention to selinux labeling.

Stephen Smalley sds at tycho.nsa.gov
Thu Jul 15 14:10:20 UTC 2010


On Thu, 2010-07-15 at 09:52 +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 04:47:40PM +0200, Tomasz Torcz wrote:
> > There are sometimes such obvious errors and missing labels that I
> > cannot imagine not catching an audit message when program fails to
> > even start!
> 
> A lot of my Fedora machines are virtualized and I only ever interact
> with them by ssh.  While I would see a program if it failed to start,
> I don't generally see any SELinux audit messages ever.  (The bloated
> python SELinux audit daemon whatever it's called is usually the first
> thing I kill when I install Fedora on my desktop too ...)

You don't need setroubleshoot to see SELinux denials.
/sbin/ausearch -m AVC -ts today -i (if running auditd) or
grep avc /var/log/messages (if not).

-- 
Stephen Smalley
National Security Agency



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