Selinux does not allow samba

[Tony Molloy]

On Thursday 31 January 2008 23:15:50 Henning Larsen wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 09:36 +1030, Tim wrote:
> > On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 19:02 +0100, Henning Larsen wrote:
> > > btw, I can live with it since the alert has gone and I use enforcing
> > > mode.
> >
> > Though, going by what you posted earlier using audit2allow, you've
> > probably disabled SELinux from doing anything about Samba.  Enforcing no
> > rules isn't really enforcing SELinux...
> >
> > This is the same sort of thing as some firewall telling a user that the
> > firewall has blocked trojan from using the internet, and the user clicks
> > on allow access.  You have to diagnose the fault, not just get rid of
> > the warning.
> >
> > --
> > (This computer runs FC7, my others run FC4, FC5 & FC6, in case that's
> >  important to the thread.)
> >
> > Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored.
> > I read messages from the public lists.
>
> I did belive that too, my problem now is that I don't know how to
> reverse what I did to stop the alerts.
> Do you have an answer to that?
>

locate mysamba.pp

rm -f ...active/mysamba.pp
rm -f .../previous/mysamba.pp

reboot

Tony

> btw. my router is firewalled against samba, so there is no big security
> issue.
>
> Henning Larsen