Where can I find SELinux knowledge

Robert Moskowitz rgm at htt-consult.com
Fri Aug 15 21:10:52 UTC 2014


EXCELLENT.  Will tackle this AFTER I get my wife off to visit our 
daughter and her family  :)

On 08/15/2014 04:56 PM, Thomas Cameron wrote:
> On 08/15/2014 12:45 PM, Rick Stevens wrote:
>> On 08/15/2014 07:40 AM, Robert Moskowitz issued this missive:
>>> The setup is armv7 (Allwinner A20 based Cubieboard)
>>> F19 remix kernel
>>> Redsleeve EL6
>>>
>>> SELinux is coming up disabled, and I can't figure out what is needed.
>>> And no help on the Redsleeve list, as its heritage is armv5 and the
>>> kernels for them do not seem to have SElinux support, so no experience
>>> with enabling it.
>> Uhm, edit /etc/selinux/config and make sure you have
>>
>>      SELINUX=enforcing
>>
>> set and then reboot?
> Don't do that. Set it to permissive, touch /.autorelabel and reboot.
> It'll relabel the filesystem and you can check the logs for any obvious
> problems.
>
> Better to read the slides and watch the video mentioned below.
>
>>> Of course there is the 'age' mismatch of F19 kernel and EL6, don't know
>>> if that is an issue.
>> Uhm, it may. It depends on if the SELinux rulesets are compatible. I
>> think you'll be OK as long as you have current selinux-policy* and
>> libselinux-* RPMs installed.
>>
>>> Centos7 for arm is aways off, so for now production is RSEL.
>>> And F21 is also aways off and F20 is a remix; I AM working with it for
>>> some cases.
> Check out SELinux for Mere Mortals from Summit 2014 at
> http://people.redhat.com/tcameron/
>
> Also maybe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxjenQ31b70
>
> Hope this helps!
>
> Thomas Cameron
>



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