Enormous local.users (849MB!!!)

[Daniel J Walsh]

Tom London wrote:

>Running strict/enforcing, latest rawhide.
>
>After installing today's updates, here is 'ls -l /etc/selinux/strict/users':
>[root at fedora users]# ls -l
>total 830620
>-rw-r--r--  1 root root 849689211 Jan 27 07:18 local.users
>-rw-r--r--  1 root root      1062 Jan 26 15:17 local.users.rpmnew
>-rw-r--r--  1 root root       511 Jan 27 07:12 system.users
>-rw-r--r--  1 root root       509 Jan 26 07:08 system.users.rpmsave
>
>I did 'mv local.users foobar', and did a 'make reload':
>[root at fedora policy]# make reload
>m4 tunables/distro.tun tunables/tunable.tun tmp/program_used_flags.te
>/etc/selinux/strict/users/local.users | sed 's/^user/#user/g' >>
>tmp/local.users
>m4: /etc/selinux/strict/users/local.users: No such file or directory
>install -m 644 tmp/local.users /etc/selinux/strict/users/local.users
>Validating file_contexts ...
>/usr/sbin/setfiles -q -c /etc/selinux/strict/policy/policy.18
>/etc/selinux/strict/contexts/files/file_contexts
>/usr/sbin/load_policy /etc/selinux/strict/policy/policy.18
>touch tmp/load
>[root at fedora policy]#
>
>Here's the results:
>[root at fedora users]# ls -l
>total 1661216
>-rw-r--r--  1 root root 849689211 Jan 27 07:18 foobar
>-rw-r--r--  1 root root 849690274 Jan 27 10:53 local.users
>-rw-r--r--  1 root root      1062 Jan 26 15:17 local.users.rpmnew
>-rw-r--r--  1 root root       511 Jan 27 07:12 system.users
>-rw-r--r--  1 root root       509 Jan 26 07:08 system.users.rpmsave
>[root at fedora users]#
>
>[root at fedora policy]# ls -l tmp
>total 830636
>-rw-r--r--  1 root root       371 Jan 12 08:23 configurable_types
>-rw-r--r--  1 root root       371 Jan 27 07:12 customizable_types
>-rw-r--r--  1 root root         0 Jan 27 10:53 load
>-rw-r--r--  1 root root 849690274 Jan 27 10:52 local.users
>-rw-r--r--  1 root root      3354 Jan 27 07:12 program_used_flags.te
>-rw-r--r--  1 root root       511 Jan 27 07:12 system.users
>-rw-r--r--  1 root root         0 Jan 27 10:53 valid_fc
>[root at fedora policy]#
>
>What did I do wrong? 849MB tmp/local.users??????
>Should the command be '>/tmp/local.users' instead of
>'>>/tmp/local.users'????
>
>Can I clear this out?
>   tom
>
>  
>
Yes