No more selinux-policy-*-sources

Stephen Smalley sds at tycho.nsa.gov
Tue Mar 14 16:45:36 UTC 2006


On Tue, 2006-03-14 at 11:33 -0500, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> On 3/14/06, Stephen J. Smoogen <smooge at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 3) They found a legitimate problem with selinux but did not have the
> > tools to debug it or had the training needed to fix it.
> 
> I'm getting more comfortable with at least troubleshooting selinux
> errors by looking for avc error messages in the logs. But sometimes i
> run into head-scratching situations that people run into where there
> are no avc error messages being generated but putting selinux into
> permissive mode seems to help as a last resort.
> 
> Are there selinux interactions which will not generate avc messages as
> a matter of selinux design?  If so how do i troubleshoot or even
> confirm that selinux policy is what an application is tripping over in
> those situations?

Under FC4 and earlier:
http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/selinux-faq-fc3/index.html#id2827008

Under FC5, you install the enableaudit.pp package, see the end of:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SELinux/Troubleshooting

The wiki could use some help...

-- 
Stephen Smalley
National Security Agency




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