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From: Chris PeBenito <pebenito@g.o>
To: gentoo-hardened@l.g.o
Cc: farcepest@×××××.com
Subject: Re: [gentoo-hardened] Problems with policy for passwd
Date: Tue, 09 Nov 2004 00:09:49
Message-Id: 1099958978.5867.3.camel@defiant.pebenito.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-hardened] Problems with policy for passwd by Andy Dustman
1 On Mon, 2004-11-08 at 13:42 -0500, Andy Dustman wrote:
2 > /usr/bin/passwd -- system_u:object_r:passwd_exec_t
3
4 > Changing the above entry from /usr/bin/passwd to /bin/passwd, doing a
5 > make load, and relabeling /bin so that /bin/passwd has
6 > system_u:object_r:passwd_exec_t fixes the problem.
7 >
8 > Is this the correct fix? I feel like I am still stumbling in the dark
9 > with SELinux, but this looks like a problem in selinux-base-policy. I
10 > have sec-policy/selinux-base-policy-20040906.
11
12 You're absolutely right :) You correctly described the problem and fix.
13 Its already fixed in the current testing base-policy.
14
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