SELinux and gitosis (FC11)

[Daniel J Walsh]

On 07/07/2009 09:07 AM, Jonathan Stott wrote:
> 2009/7/7 Daniel J Walsh<dwalsh at redhat.com>:
>> So you intended on using the guest_t user?  What does the te file created by
>> audit2allow look like?
>>
>> I think the problem here is the guest_t user is running at s0 and trying to
>> write to a fifo_file at s0-s0:c0.c1023
>>
>> If you take the above audit messages and run them through audit2why, what
>> does the tool say?
>>
>
> It says the errors were caused by:
> 	Was caused by:
> 		Policy constraint violation.
>
> 		May require adding a type attribute to the domain or type to satisfy
> the constraint.
>
> 		Constraints are defined in the policy sources in policy/constraints
> (general), policy/mcs (MCS), and policy/mls (MLS).
>
> And when I run them through audit2why gives me
>
> #============= guest_t ==============
> allow guest_t sshd_t:fifo_file write;
>
> Which looks vaguely sane to my untrained eye.
>
> I'm not particularly wedded to the guest user in specific, but I would
> prefer it to have a minimal privilege user, since it has no need to do
> anything but manage the git repositories in the home directory.
>
> Regards
> Jon
No I think this is great, Just trying to figure out the best way to do this.