selinux question(s) (/home really = /n/home..)

[Matt Nicholson]

So, I have an environment, where we pull user data/auth from ldap/kerberos
for a bunch of fedora workstations. I would love to have selinux turned on
on these, but, right now it jsut doesn't work with our setup.

See, your users home directories are in a few different places. for the most
part, LDAP think their home is at /n/home, or /n/data/home. So, i have /home
bind mounted to those locations, and, sith selinux off, its all nice and
happy. Another weird thing, is that /home is local on these workstations, so
when a user sits at a workstation for the first time, an empty homedir must
be created. We hope to move to nfs /home soon, but not yet.

once i turn it on, however, users cannot log in, and the home directoies
cannot be created. I get selinux messages like:

Summary:

SELinux is preventing sshd (sshd_t) "create" to ./nichols2 (home_root_t).

Detailed Description:

SELinux denied access requested by sshd. It is not expected that this access
is
required by sshd and this access may signal an intrusion attempt. It is also
possible that the specific version or configuration of the application is
causing it to require additional access.

Allowing Access:

Sometimes labeling problems can cause SELinux denials. You could try to
restore
the default system file context for ./nichols2,

restorecon -v './nichols2'

If this does not work, there is currently no automatic way to allow this
access.
Instead, you can generate a local policy module to allow this access - see
FAQ
(http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/selinux-faq-fc5/#id2961385) Or you can
disable
SELinux protection altogether. Disabling SELinux protection is not
recommended.
Please file a bug report (http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/enter_bug.cgi)
against this package.

Additional Information:

Source Context                system_u:system_r:sshd_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023
Target Context                system_u:object_r:home_root_t:s0
Target Objects                ./nichols2 [ dir ]
Source                        sshd
Source Path                   /usr/sbin/sshd
Port                          <Unknown>
Host                          dhcp-0016533596-c5-74
Source RPM Packages           openssh-server-5.1p1-2.fc9
Target RPM Packages
Policy RPM                    selinux-policy-3.3.1-103.fc9
Selinux Enabled               True
Policy Type                   targeted
MLS Enabled                   True
Enforcing Mode                Enforcing
Plugin Name                   catchall_file
Host Name                     dhcp-0016533596-c5-74
Platform                      Linux dhcp-0016533596-c5-74
2.6.26.6-79.fc9.i686
                              #1 SMP Fri Oct 17 14:52:14 EDT 2008 i686 i686
Alert Count                   1
First Seen                    Tue Nov  4 10:49:41 2008
Last Seen                     Tue Nov  4 10:49:41 2008
Local ID                      803e925f-1d6e-4473-9054-dbaf0c0f3abd
Line Numbers

Raw Audit Messages

host=dhcp-0016533596-c5-74 type=AVC msg=audit(1225813781.838:89): avc:
denied  { create } for  pid=4956 comm="sshd" name="nichols2"
scontext=system_u:system_r:sshd_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023
tcontext=system_u:object_r:home_root_t:s0 tclass=dir

host=dhcp-0016533596-c5-74 type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1225813781.838:89):
arch=40000003 syscall=39 success=no exit=-13 a0=b9b4f058 a1=1ed a2=8209e4
a3=b9b7d230 items=0 ppid=2341 pid=4956 auid=4294967295 uid=0 gid=0 euid=0
suid=0 fsuid=0 egid=0 sgid=0 fsgid=0 tty=(none) ses=4294967295 comm="sshd"
exe="/usr/sbin/sshd" subj=system_u:system_r:sshd_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 key=(null)

Thats for an ssh login attempt. I get the same for one via GDM. I've tried
adding "context=system_r:object_r:home_root_t" when i bind mount the /home
on /n/home etc, and no luck so far. do I need to relabel /n ? what/how
should I? any help would be awesome.

Thanks,

Matt
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