RE: [gentoo-hardened] building gentoo hardened - selinux

[Chris PeBenito]

This all has to do with the headers update that has been going on for
the last couple weeks.  The livecd has to be updated too, and I
overlooked this fact.  I'll try to get a new livecd out ASAP.


On Tue, 2004-09-14 at 20:04, Richard Simpson wrote:
> Brian-
>
> Look in /usr/src/linux/security/selinux/include/security.h to see what
> policy versions your kernel is compatible with. My 2.6.7-r8 kernel
> lists 15 min and 17 max, so I was able to use POLICYCOMPAT = -c 17.
> AFAIK the policy compiler is only backwards compatible 1 version
> level.
>
> For some reason emerge chose to merge selinux-base-policy-20040906 on
> my system too even though that package is flagged ~x86, and I found
> out after the fact that it's not compatible with my kernel. I would
> like to see hardened-dev-sources noted in the changelog what policy
> versions it supports, rather than having to dig through the headers
> after its emerged.
>
> Richard.
>         -----Original Message-----
>         From: Brian Fernald [mailto:bfernald@×××××.com]
>         Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2004 4:47 PM
>         To: gentoo-hardened@l.g.o
>         Subject: [gentoo-hardened] building gentoo hardened - selinux
>
>
>         Hi,
>
>         I have just walked through the Gentoo SELinux handbook to
>         build a new system.    Whenever I come to the point of loading
>         the security policy,  it attempts to build a Policy of version
>         18 ..  It reports the following :
>
>          make load
>          * Creating policy.conf
>          * Policy version: 18
>          * Kernel version: 16
>          * WARNING: Policy version mismatch.  Is your POLICYCOMPAT set
>         correctly?
>          *  See
>         http://hardened.gentoo.org/selinux/selinux-policy.xml#doc_chap6
>          *  for more information.
>          * Compiling and installing policy.18
>         /usr/bin/checkpolicy:  loading policy configuration from
>         /etc/security/selinux/src/policy.conf
>         security:  3 users, 5 roles, 367 types, 1 bools
>         security:  51 classes, 24552 rules
>         /usr/bin/checkpolicy:  policy configuration loaded
>         /usr/bin/checkpolicy:  writing binary representation (version
>         18) to /etc/security/selinux/policy.18
>          * Building file_contexts
>          * Installing file_contexts
>          * Loading policy.18
>         /usr/sbin/load_policy:  security_load_policy failed
>         make: *** [tmp/load] Error 3
>
>
>         ... i then changed   POLICYCOMPAT  to be 16 and tried again :
>
>          make load
>          * Policy version: 16
>          * Kernel version: 16
>          * Compiling and installing policy.16
>         /usr/bin/checkpolicy:  loading policy configuration from
>         /etc/security/selinux/src/policy.conf
>         security:  3 users, 5 roles, 367 types, 1 bools
>         security:  51 classes, 24552 rules
>         /usr/bin/checkpolicy:  policy configuration loaded
>         /usr/bin/checkpolicy:  writing binary representation (version
>         16) to /etc/security/selinux/policy.16
>          * Loading policy.16
>         /usr/sbin/load_policy:  security_load_policy failed
>         make: *** [tmp/load] Error 3
>
>
>         it still fails.
>
>         The system is currently booted to the LiveCD (as per
>         instructions)..  the kernel downloaded and build was
>         2.6.7-hardened-r8  (emerge hardened-dev-sources)  ..
>
>         Could anyone shed some light on what I am doing incorrectly ?
>
>         Thanks,
>
>         Brian
>
-- 
Chris PeBenito
<pebenito@g.o>
Developer,
Hardened Gentoo Linux
Embedded Gentoo Linux
 
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