avc denied from postgresql

Daniel J Walsh dwalsh at redhat.com
Thu Jul 1 11:39:05 UTC 2004


Richard Hally wrote:

> Yuichi Nakamura wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 16 Jun 2004 00:31:58 -0400
>> Richard Hally <rhallyx at mindspring.com> wrote:
>>
>>> With the above change to the postgresql.fc I get the following avc 
>>> denied messages when booting:
>>
>>
>> You must add /usr/bin/postgres --    system_u:object_r:postgresql_exec_t
>> to postgresql.fc
>> and , comment out session           optional     
>> /lib/security/$ISA/pam_selinux.so multiple
>> from /etc/pam.d/su.
>
> Thanks for the reply, it looks to me that the problem is more like the 
> policy and file_contexts were written for the way Debian(or some other 
> distro) installs PostgresSQL and Fedora installs things differently. 
> The most notable is that in the .fc it has the only postgresql_exec_t 
> with a regex for /usr/lib(64)?/postgresql/bin/.* and on Fedora the 
> executables are in /usr/bin.
> The question I have is: how do we handle these case where different 
> distros put the same files in different places? Do we continue to add 
> to the policy for each different distro?

Yes we put the stuff in both places.

>
> Richard Hally
>
>
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