Centos 5 + RPMForge : SELinux block OpenVPN form using

[Manuel Wolfshant]

On 12/06/2008 01:17 PM, Manuel Wolfshant wrote:
> On 12/06/2008 11:05 AM, Paul Howarth wrote:
>> On Fri, 5 Dec 2008 23:13:13 -0600
>> "Arthur Pemberton" <pemboa at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>  
>>> Audit message is:
>>>
>>> host=moriarty type=AVC msg=audit(1228539599.507:62): avc:  denied  {
>>> execstack } for  pid=4737 comm="openvpn"
>>> scontext=user_u:system_r:openvpn_t:s0 tcontext=user_u:system_r:openvpn
>>> _t:s0 tclass=process
>>>
>>> host=moriarty type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1228539599.507:62): arch=40000003
>>> syscall=125 success=no exit=-13 a0=bfd77000 a1=1000 a2=1000007
>>> a3=fffff000 items=0 ppid=4727 pid=4737 auid=50
>>> 0 uid=0 gid=0 euid=0 suid=0 fsuid=0 egid=0 sgid=0 fsgid=0 tty=pts1
>>> ses=6 comm="openvpn" exe="/usr/sbin/openvpn"
>>> subj=user_u:system_r:openvpn_t:s0 key=(null)
>>>
>>> setroubleshoot had no suggestion. This only happens when the init
>>> script is used. Direct infovation of openvpn as root does not cause
>>> this.
>>>
>>> this google search suggests that this is a fairly popular problem with
>>> no published solution (that I've seen):
>>> http://www.google.com/search?q=liblzo2.so.2%3A+cannot+enable+executable+stack+as+shared+object+requires%3A+Permission+denied%22&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a 
>>>
>>>
>>>     
>>
>> Does the same problem happen if you use the lzo and openvpn from EPEL?
>>   
> openvpn from EPEL (+ the stack off libs needed and taken from EPEL, 
> too ) worked for me fine ever since it has been included over there. I 
> am using openvpn-2.1-0.29.rc15.el5.x86_64 in this very moment.
> The version from rpmforge did indeed exhibit the same error as Paul 
> has seen (reason for the switch to EPEL, to be honest)
sorry, I meant "Arthur has seen"