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

[Adam Young]

On 06/18/2010 04:51 PM, Rob Crittenden wrote:
> 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
Before I open a bug I want to review with Pavel.  I wasn't seeing this 
before I merged in his changes, and it wasn't for code in the main git 
repo, so no bug yet.