about restarting services and user domains F14

[Daniel J Walsh]

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On 04/04/2011 09:19 PM, Gabriel Ramirez wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a small problem or I didn't find the correct info, in my Fedora 
> 14 x86_64 and i686 machines when I restart a service by:
> 
> # service postfix restart
> or
> $ sudo service postfix restart
> 
> always the process runs under unconfined_u
> as per ps axZ | grep postfix
> 
> unconfined_u:system_r:postfix_master_t:s0 26602 ? Ss   0:00 
> /usr/libexec/postfix/master
> unconfined_u:system_r:postfix_pickup_t:s0 26604 ? S   0:00 pickup -l -t 
> fifo -u
> unconfined_u:system_r:postfix_qmgr_t:s0 26605 ? S     0:00 qmgr -l -t 
> fifo -u
> 
> and not under system_u as after a reboot
> 
> system_u:system_r:postfix_master_t:s0 1706 ?   Ss     0:11 
> /usr/libexec/postfix/master
> system_u:system_r:postfix_qmgr_t:s0 1717 ?     S      0:05 qmgr -l -t 
> fifo -u
> system_u:system_r:postfix_master_t:s0 1822 ?   S      0:01 tlsmgr -l -t 
> unix -u
> system_u:system_r:postfix_pickup_t:s0 26061 ?  S      0:00 pickup -l -t 
> fifo -u
> 
> what can use to restart a service with the correct user context?
> 
> also sometimes I edit a file in /etc and after saving the context change 
> from system_u to unconfined_u how can prevent that??,
> 
> 
> thanks
> 
> Gabrielo
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First off I would say it does not matter, or should not matter.

You could use run_init command to start it with the system_u user.

run_init service postfix restart

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