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I am using the targeted policy. |
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The ebuild version of policycoreutils is 1.34.15. |
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"restorecon /root" does not fix the problem. |
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Thanks for the help, |
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Randy |
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> Subject: Re: [gentoo-hardened] Mislabeled root home directory |
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> From: pebenito@g.o |
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> To: gentoo-hardened@l.g.o |
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> Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2008 15:33:58 -0400 |
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> |
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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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>> |
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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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>> |
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>> system_u:object_r:default_t |
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> |
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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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> |
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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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>> |
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>> /root/\.default_contexts -- system_u:object_r:default_context_t |
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> |
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> No, its not. |
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> -- |
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> Chris PeBenito |
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> Developer, |
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> Hardened Gentoo Linux |
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> Key fingerprint = B0E6 877A 883F A57A 8E6A CB00 BC8E E42D E6AF 9243 |
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