Experience with SELinux enabled and targetted policy

Richard E Miles r.godzilla at comcast.net
Mon Feb 21 23:43:44 UTC 2005


On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 17:57:08 -0500 (EST)
"William Hooper" <whooperhsd3 at earthlink.net> wrote:

> 
> Richard E Miles said:
> > On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 16:22:04 -0500 (EST)
> > "William Hooper" <whooperhsd3 at earthlink.net> wrote:
> >
> >
> >>
> >> Richard E Miles said:
> >>
> >>> In order to understand SELinux more I enabled SELinux on my system. I
> >>>  noticed a problem with access denied on portmap and ntpdate and ntpd
> >>>  services.
> >>
> >> If you have been running the system with SELinux off then you most
> >> likely have a large number of files with the incorrect context.  Take a
> >> look at the "fixfiles" utility.
> [snip]
> > I forgot to mention that I originally set it up in permissive mode. It
> > did report warnings for these services. I then ran fixfiles check. It did
> > not report any problems.
> 
> So the avc errors went away after a fixfiles?
> 
> > So I guess I am still not sure whay these
> > prevention warnings occured. I was just curious it someone knew and if
> > there was something I could do to correct it. I can always disable
> > SELinux. Should I report this as a
> > bugzilla?
> 
> The fedora-selinux mailing list is the next stop before bugzilla.
> 
> -- 
> William Hooper
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Okay, thanks William. I will report the findings to the fedora-selinux list.

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Richard E Miles
Federal Way WA. USA
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