Selinux does not allow samba

Henning Larsen hennlar at start.no
Thu Jan 31 23:15:50 UTC 2008


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?

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

Henning Larsen




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