SEL message

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Tue Mar 30 23:21:29 UTC 2004


Derek Tattersall (dlt at mebtel.net) said: 
> Using YUM update on FC2 test2 I get the following message:
> warning: setexeccon(root:staff_r:rpm_script_t) fails from context
> "root:staff_r:staff_t": Invalid argument
> 
> It doesn't seem to cause a problem, (the security context is warning),
> but I am trying to come up to speed on SELinux and I've got a fair ways
> to go.  Should I be worried about this message?  What insufficiency on
> my part is causing it?

yum/rpm/up2date need to run as sysadm_r, not staff_r. This
can be changed in policy, IIRC.

Bill





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