Recent SEL problems on FC3 box - named & dhcpd

[Stephen Smalley]

On Tue, 2005-03-22 at 16:11 +0000, Ruth Ivimey-Cook wrote:
> It is a fresh install of FC3, installed with targetted as default policy. I.e.
> I have changed nothing since the install (except updating rpms with "yum".

Did you preserve any existing filesystems from a prior install of Fedora
Core?  If so, then they wouldn't get labeled automatically.

> Is there some doc on what relabelling means?

Assigning security contexts (labels) to the files, stored as extended
attributes of the inode.  

http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/selinux-faq-fc3/
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-4-Manual/selinux-guide/
http://www.nsa.gov/selinux/papers/policy2/t1.html

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Stephen Smalley <sds at tycho.nsa.gov>
National Security Agency