SELinux Admin newbie question

[Temlakos]

On 03/05/2010 08:43 AM, Daniel J Walsh wrote:
> On 03/04/2010 05:18 PM, Temlakos wrote:
>> Daniel J Walsh wrote:
>>> On 03/04/2010 01:33 PM, Temlakos wrote:
>>>> Dominick Grift wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 03/04/2010 07:14 PM, Temlakos wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> Anyway--in case I have to use that installer again, as I think I
>>>>>> might,
>>>>>> I'd like to have somebody go over those alerts--because they 
>>>>>> /have/ to
>>>>>> be related, somehow. Here they are again:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>> Just a comment:
>>>>>
>>>>> ausearch -m avc -ts ... does not show all denials in
>>>>> /var/log/audit/audit.log
>>>>>
>>>>> There could also be user space AVC denials present which can be
>>>>> listed with:
>>>>>
>>>>> ausearch -m user_avc -ts ...
>>>>>
>>>>> In some rare cases sone AVC denials may end up in dmesg and/or
>>>>> /var/log/messages.
>>>>>
>>>>> Unfortunately i do not see anything in your enclosed AVC denials 
>>>>> that i
>>>>> suspect may be related to your issue. Hopefully someone else does.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> Well, I just tried searching on user_avc, even after un-hiding the
>>>> alerts. Result:
>>>>
>>>> <no matches>
>>>>
>>>> So what I submitted, has to be it.
>>>>
>>>> But: might this have anything to do with it? I'm using KDE now, and 
>>>> one
>>>> of the things that the installer had to do was to get into KWallet, 
>>>> and
>>>> for that the system asked for my KWallet password, which I gave.
>>>>
>>>> I'm new to KDE, and I'm surprised that I didn't use it earlier. KDE 
>>>> has
>>>> an automatic package installer that has already made my life a lot
>>>> simpler, and when I realized that I was using a lot of KDE-specific
>>>> apps, KDE was the logical choice. But maybe KDE has some subtleties 
>>>> that
>>>> occasionally create a security problem in a security-enhanced
>>>> environment.
>>>>
>>>> Temlakos
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>>>>
>>>>
>>> I have seen installations trip over execmod,execmem and execstack 
>>> checks.
>>>
>>> Also if the tools use java, it can do some stuff that SELinux does not
>>> like.
>>>
>>> getsebool allow_execstack allow_execmem allow_execmod
>>>
>>>
>> allow_execstack -->  on
>> allow_execmem -->  on
>> allow_execmod -->  off
>>
>> OK, what next?
>>
>> Temlakos
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> Try installing with allow_execmod on.
>
> setsebool allow_execmod 1
>
>

Done and thanks. Maybe next time I have to use AIR Installer, it will 
behave.

It's nice to be able to enforce the security policy full-time.

Temlakos