Selinux blocking denyhosts

[Daniel J Walsh]

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On 05/29/2011 08:02 AM, Kevin H. Hobbs wrote:
> I tried to install and enable denyhosts on a fresh Fedora 15 install.
> 
> I did systemctl enable denyhosts.service. systemctl ran chkconfig.
> 
> When I started the service I got this in /var/log/messages:
> 
> May 29 07:49:33 murron setroubleshoot: SELinux is preventing 
> /usr/bin/python from read access on the lnk_file /var/lock. For 
> complete SELinux messages. run sealert -l 
> fc8b6153-e359-409b-9310-9f0f3b3a20c7
> 
> sealert says:
> 
> SELinux is preventing /usr/bin/python from read access on the 
> lnk_file /var/lock.
> 
> *****  Plugin restorecon (94.8 confidence) suggests  
> *************************
> 
> If you want to fix the label.
> /var/lock default label should be var_lock_t.
> Then you can run restorecon.
> Do
> # /sbin/restorecon -v /var/lock
> 
> *****  Plugin catchall_labels (5.21 confidence) suggests  
> ********************
> 
> If you want to allow python to have read access on the lock lnk_file
> Then you need to change the label on /var/lock
> Do
> # semanage fcontext -a -t FILE_TYPE '/var/lock'
> where FILE_TYPE is one of the following: var_run_t, var_lock_t, 
> bin_t, cert_t, usr_t, device_t, devlog_t, locale_t, abrt_t, 
> etc_t, lib_t, proc_t, root_t, device_t, ld_so_t, proc_t, 
> denyhosts_t, textrel_shlib_t, rpm_script_tmp_t, var_run_t.
> Then execute:
> restorecon -v '/var/lock'
> 
> 
> *****  Plugin catchall (1.44 confidence) suggests  
> ***************************
> 
> If you believe that python should be allowed read access on the 
> lock lnk_file by default.
> Then you should report this as a bug.
> You can generate a local policy module to allow this access.
> Do
> allow this access for now by executing:
> # grep denyhosts.py /var/log/audit/audit.log | audit2allow -M mypol
> # semodule -i mypol.pp


restorecon -R -v /var

Should fix your problem.
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