Selinux does not allow samba

[Daniel J Walsh]

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Tony Molloy wrote:
> 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
> 
> 
semodule -r mysamba is the proper way to do this
Just removing the pp files will not effect the policy until the next
time the policy is rebuild.  So doing the rm -f ...active/mysamba.pp
would need to be followed by semodule -B and no reboot would be
necessary.  (This is not windows.)

Henning, what AVC's are you seeing?  What did the te file that you
loaded look like?
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