selinux-policy-3.5.13-46.fc10.noarch - slight hiccup!

[Daniel J Walsh]

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Mike Cloaked wrote:
> I have just updated some f10 boxes a few minutes ago. On logging on again
> after rebooting to the new kernel this evening, the main user directories
> have had their contexts changed to usr_t so I presume some kind of
> relabelling has been done - but not correctly!  After restorecon -vR
> /home/user the contexts have mostly reverted to where they should be - I
> initially noticed because ssh suddenly started demanding a passphrase when
> it should not need one - and then I noted avc denials..... 
> 
> This is for selinux-policy-3.5.13-46.fc10.noarch and the related targeted
> policy.  
> 
> I have tested on several systems and so far all is well after doing 
> restorecon -vR /home
> as root to fix all user areas in one go.  Any one user can fix their own
> user area by doing restorecon -vR /home/user 
> I presume that this will lose any chcon changes - but any contexts that were
> saved as a rule using semanage fcontext presumably should be restored -
> though I have not had time to explore all directories yet.  
> 
> This update was pushed to stable today so presumably it will take a while to
> sync to all mirrors.
This is very strange, I have no idea why SELinux update would do this,
and suspect that something else might have gone wrong.  Were there other
packages in the update?

I will update my F10 and see what is going on.

Could be someone is doing a chcon -t usr_t in a post install script?

selinux-policy should only be doing the equivalent of a restorecon -vR
in its post install.  Actually executes fixfiles
"fixfiles -C ${FILE_CONTEXT}.pre restore"

Which figures out what was different between the old file context and
the new and runs restorecon on them.
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