How do I tell if SELinux is working?
Jon August
jon at internection.com
Wed Jun 22 22:45:25 UTC 2005
httpd is running with type:
root:system_r:unconfined_t
What does this mean? Is httpd a vulnerability on this machine?
On Jun 22, 2005, at 6:35 PM, Colin Walters wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 17:41 -0400, Jon August wrote:
>
>> I updated the policy after I found that there was a bug with starting
>> DHCP and since then I haven't had any issues getting things to work.
>> Things like a CGI script running sendmail to send an email - which
>> used to show up in the audit log, now work fine.
>>
>> What can I do to see if SELinux is still paying attention?
>>
>
> You can run 'ps axZ | grep processname' to see the security context
> that
> a process is running under. For example,
>
> [root at nexus walters]# ps axZ | grep httpd
> root:system_r:httpd_t 2723 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/
> sbin/httpd
>
> If you see httpd_t then you can be pretty sure your CGI script is
> confined. The only way it could not be, off the top of my head, is if
> you have a script labeled with the type
> httpd_unconfined_script_exec_t.
>
>
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