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On Fri, 2008-08-01 at 22:35 -0400, Randy Tupas wrote: |
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> I recently updated to the 20080525 selinux base policy and modules. |
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> I've received the following avc messages: |
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> Aug 01 18:53:22 tux (null): avc: denied pid=8004 comm=ssmtp name=root |
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> ino=87746 dev=sdb3 scontext=system_u:system_r:system_mail_t |
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> tcontext=system_u:object_r:default_t tclass=dir |
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> A little searching revealed that the root home directory, /root, has |
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> the following context: |
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> system_u:object_r:default_t |
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Need more information. Which policy (strict or targeted)? Also, what |
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is the version of your policycoreutils? If you do `restorecon /root` |
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does it get fixed? |
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> I'm sure this is in error - but wanted to make sure. I believe the |
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> problem lies with the following line |
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> in /etc/selinux/targeted/context/files/file_contexts: |
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> /root/\.default_contexts -- system_u:object_r:default_context_t |
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No, its not. |
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Chris PeBenito |
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<pebenito@g.o> |
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Developer, |
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Hardened Gentoo Linux |
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