[Fedora-livecd-list] livecd-creator problem during enforcing

Warren Togami wtogami at redhat.com
Tue Aug 26 01:28:54 UTC 2008


Warren Togami wrote:
> Hi Eric,
> 
> <warren> jeremy: btw, any idea why if I create a livecd while enforcing, 
> the resulting image when booted cannot do /bin/su?
> Permission denied
> <warren> jeremy: F9 host, F9 target image
> <warren> jeremy: it seems fine if I setenforce 0 before livecd-creator
> <jeremy> warren: with f9 updates?  if so, I *thought* all of the selinux 
> userspace bits for enforcing had been pushed.  but I didn't keep that 
> close of an eye on them.  eparis would be the one to ask
> 
> Currently if I make a LiveCD of F9 + updates on a F9 host, 
> livecd-creator seems to succeed.  But if I boot that live image, I am 
> unable to run /bin/su because of a denied permission.  setenforce 0 
> prior to livecd-creator creates a working image.
> 
> Are we missing bits pushed to F9 updates that would allow enforcing to 
> be enabled and to create a valid LiveCD image?
> 

According to dwalsh it turns out that you need at least kernel-2.6.26 
for livecd-creator to work properly with enforcing enabled.

Warren




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