SELinux and vpn connections

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Wed Nov 8 12:33:54 UTC 2006


Tibor Attila Anca wrote:
> Hello List,
> 
> as I posted yesterday, I run FC 6 on my office box. It is really
> gorgeous. Beside the OpenOffice.org bug I only have a technical question
> (for this time).
> 
> To get an internet connection I need to initialize at boot time a vpn
> connection to one of the university servers. If SELinux is enabled, the
> connections is blocked. I simply have no idea, what do I have to change.
> I would like to use SELinux. I will especially need it, if I will
> migrate the public workstations from SUSE to Fedora Core. They also need
> vpn connections.

It would help if you indicated what type of VPN you are using (which VPN 
software?) and what the SELinux denial messages are (look in 
/var/log/messages or /var/log/audit/audit.log).

Paul.




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