perl/cgi script problem
Daniel J Walsh
dwalsh at redhat.com
Fri Dec 3 19:34:22 UTC 2004
Arthur Stephens wrote:
> Ok I thought I had this SELinux thing figured out atleast a little.
> Finally got httpd to startup.
> But now I have perl/cgi script problems.
> When trying to access my Genesis WebAuthoring System the script works
> in the /cgi-bin/genesis/ directory displaying the login screen
> but when I go to log in I get this error message.
> **
> *Error:* could not write to file
> '/var/www/pteraweb/cgi-bin/genesis/script_data/accounts/.webauth_tokens'
> - Permission denied - Permission denied
>
> Plus these on the console
> Dec 2 21:04:37 webmail kernel: audit(1102050277.791:0): avc: denied
> { search } for pid=2359 exe=/usr/bin/perl name=sys dev=proc
> ino=-268435431 scontext=root:system_r:httpd_sys_script_t
> tcontext=system_u:object_r:sysctl_t tclass=dir
> Dec 2 21:04:54 webmail kernel: audit(1102050294.906:0): avc: denied
> { search } for pid=2360 exe=/usr/bin/perl
> scontext=root:system_r:httpd_sys_script_t
> tcontext=system_u:object_r:sysctl_kernel_t tclass=dir
> Dec 2 21:04:54 webmail kernel: audit(1102050294.906:0): avc: denied
> { search } for pid=2360 exe=/usr/bin/perl name=sys dev=proc
> ino=-268435431 scontext=root:system_r:httpd_sys_script_t
> tcontext=system_u:object_r:sysctl_t tclass=dir
> Dec 2 21:04:55 webmail kernel: audit(1102050295.132:0): avc: denied
> { write } for pid=2360 exe=/usr/bin/perl name=.webauth_tokens
> dev=dm-0 ino=228251 scontext=root:system_r:httpd_sys_script_t
> tcontext=system_u:object_r:httpd_sys_content_t tclass=file
> Oh I know what this means so I added this to my custom.fc
> /var/www/.*/cgi-bin(/.*)? system-u:object_r:httpd_sys_script_exec_t
>
> which is what I saw in file_contexts for /var/www/cgi-bin
>
> make load
> fixfiles relabel
>
> The log shows it relabled everything.
> But now I get...
>
> Dec 3 13:42:38 webmail kernel: audit(1102110158.398:0): avc: denied
> { search } for pid=1873 exe=/usr/bin/perl name=sys dev=proc
> ino=-268435431 scontext=user_u:system_r:httpd_sys_script_t
> tcontext=system_u:object_r:sysctl_t tclass=dir
> Dec 3 13:42:47 webmail kernel: audit(1102110167.739:0): avc: denied
> { search } for pid=1874 exe=/usr/bin/perl
> scontext=user_u:system_r:httpd_sys_script_t
> tcontext=system_u:object_r:sysctl_kernel_t tclass=dir
> Dec 3 13:42:47 webmail kernel: audit(1102110167.740:0): avc: denied
> { search } for pid=1874 exe=/usr/bin/perl name=sys dev=proc
> ino=-268435431 scontext=user_u:system_r:httpd_sys_script_t
> tcontext=system_u:object_r:sysctl_t tclass=dir
> Dec 3 13:42:47 webmail kernel: audit(1102110167.964:0): avc: denied
> { write } for pid=1874 exe=/usr/bin/perl name=.webauth_tokens
> dev=dm-0 ino=228251 scontext=user_u:system_r:httpd_sys_script_t
> tcontext=system_u:object_r:httpd_sys_script_exec_t tclass=file
> So I ran out of what I know to do or maybe I messed things up.
>
>
> Arthur Stephens
> Sales Technician
> Ptera Wireless Internet
> astephens at ptera.net <mailto:astephens at ptera.net>
> 509-927-Ptera
>
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We have placed an update to the SELinux policy that should fix this problem.
I am not sure it has made it into Fedora-Updates yet. The latest policy
is available at
ftp://people.redhat.com/dwalsh/SELinux/FC3
Dan
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