changes from fedora 7 to 9

[Daniel J Walsh]

Robert J. Carr wrote:
> Hopefully this is a quick question to those that know SELinux more
> than I do, which wouldn't be very hard to accomplish.
> 
> I'm migrating a (working) environment from one server running Fedora 7
> to another running Fedora 9.  After pulling my hair out for most of
> the day I've found out the problem is with SELinux because when I
> turned it off temporarily everything worked fine.
> 
> Not to get into too much detail, but my problem came from apache not
> being able to access a file (although the error isn't quite that
> clear).  Between the working environment and the non-working
> environment I can only see a couple differences in the selinux config
> files in /etc, but these have never been touched in either instance.
> 
> The context labels are a bit different too.  The working environment
> has these selinux context labels:
> 
>   user_u:object_r:httpd_sys_content_t
> 
> But the non-working environment has these context labels:
> 
>   unconfined_u:object_r:httpd_sys_content_t:s0
> 
> It seems to get an extra field and the user changes to unconfined.  Is
> this relevant?
> 
> There is nothing else that I can find different, is there anything
> else that could be the problem?
> 
> Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
> 
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Also pipe them through audit2why it might tell you you need to turn on a
boolean.

grep http /var/log/audit/audit.log | audit2allow -w