[Freeipa-devel] Writing to /var/cache/ipa/assets/

[Rob Crittenden]

Adam Young wrote:
> Pavel's current code base tries to write to  /var/cache/ipa/assets/ from 
> within httpd, which is forbidden by SELinux.  I suspect the code in the 
> mainline might be doing this as well.  The work around is:
> 
> chcon -R -t httpd_sys_content_rw_t /var/cache/ipa/assets
> semanage fcontext -a -t httpd_sys_content_rw_t 'assets'
> 
> If we are going to do this kind of code generation, we might want to do 
> it at install time, or as part of something like
> /etc/init.d/ipa-server start
>

I'd think this rule would cover it in ipa_httpd.fc:

/var/cache/ipa/assets(/.*)? 
gen_context(system_u:object_r:httpd_sys_content_t,s0)

rob