AVC for rpcbind

[Bert Todger]

Ooops - sorry. I forgot to check my mailing preferences and the last reply went direct to Jason. Back on list...

--- On Sat, 12/13/08, Jason L Tibbitts III <tibbs at math.uh.edu> wrote:

> From: Jason L Tibbitts III <tibbs at math.uh.edu>
> Subject: Re: AVC for rpcbind
> To: btodger at yahoo.com
> Cc: fedora-selinux-list at redhat.com
> Date: Saturday, December 13, 2008, 11:04 AM
> >>>>> "BT" == Bert Todger
> <btodger at yahoo.com> writes:
> 
> BT> I have absolutely no idea what rpcbind does, but I
> do know putting
> BT> them into permissive mode allows rpcbind and then
> the NFS services
> BT> start normally.
> 
> I just updated to the selinux-policy-* packages from
> updates-testing.
> Unfortunately the rpcbind update was pushed out before the
> selinux
> policy update even though this problem was known.
> 
>  - J<

OK - Thanks for that. But what exactly does it mean for me?

Should I create a policy? Should I just wait for a fix? (if so what is the likely timescale?) or should I just leave it in Permissive mode for the time-being?

Thanks for your help...

BT