Selinux woes

[Paul Howarth]

Dan Track wrote:
> On 7/27/06, Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> wrote:
>> Dan Track wrote:
>> > On 7/27/06, Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> wrote:
>> >> Dan Track wrote:
>> >> > Hi All
>> >> >
>> >> > I'm having trouble running software, especially the cgi scripts. I
>> >> > keep getting the following denial messages:
>> >> >
>> >> > audit(1153994541.663:20): avc:  denied  { execute_no_trans } for
>> >> > pid=9258 comm="httpd" name="status.cgi" dev=sda2 ino=19426
>> >> > scontext=root:system_r:httpd_t tcontext=system_u:object_r:lib_t
>> >> > tclass=file
>> >> >
>> >> > The files are located in /usr/lib/nagios/cgi/
>> >> >
>> >> > Could some please help me figure this out. I've started to read
>> >> > through the selinux manual but its a huge climb and would appreciate
>> >> > ways to solve the above.
>> >>
>> >> You should read "man httpd_selinux", which has notes on running CGI
>> >> programs under SELinux.
>> >>
>> >> You generally need to set the SELinux context type of CGI programs to
>> >> httpd_sys_script_exec_t:
>> >>
>> >> # chcon -R -t httpd_sys_script_exec_t /usr/lib/nagios/cgi
>> >>
>> >> Is this the nagios version in Fedora Extras? If it is, failure to work
>> >> with SELinux enabled should be bugzilla-ed.
>> >>
>> >> Paul.
>> >>
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>> > Hi Paul,
>> >
>> > Thanks for the reply. I manged the above before I read you rmessage.
>> > Thanks for the heads up though. Would you be able to help on the next
>> > "search" error message.
>>
>> It's being denied access to search the /var/log directory to see what's
>> in it.
>>
>> > Just to add this is a nagios install from source.
>>
>> Is there some particular reason you're not using the package in Extras,
>> which *may* have solved these problems already?
>>
> 
> Hi Paul
> 
> I downloaded the latest version from nagios. I didn't see the latest
> version in the repository.
> 
> Would you what command to run to fix this problem? I ran audit2allow
> and inserted teh rules in local.te, and ran make. I restarted the
> httpd, nagios and syslog daemons but still no joy.

Here's now I approach these problems on FC5:
http://www.city-fan.org/tips/BuildSeLinuxPolicyModules

Paul.