Beware today's updates - selinux is changing home user contexts

[Joshua Armstrong]

Mike Cloaked wrote:
> I have just updated some f10 boxes a few minutes ago. On logging on again
> after rebooting to the new kernel this evening, the main user directories
> have had their contexts changed to usr_t so I presume some kind of
> relabelling has been done - but not correctly!  After restorecon -vR
> /home/user the contexts have mostly reverted to where they should be - I
> initially noticed because ssh suddenly started demanding a passphrase when
> it should not need one - and then I noted avc denials.....
>
> I hope not too many users are going to have their home directories messed up
> as a result! The relevant update is
> selinux-policy-targeted-3.5.13-46.fc10.noarch.rpm 
>
> This is not good - especially for a stable release!
>   
I second this - I just verified this on my f10 webserver. Thankfully, 
all the important files are set to httpd_sys_content_t and in read-only 
directories. But it did break being able to read home directories over 
CIFS share.

-- 
Joshua M. Armstrong
jarmstrong at wi.rr.com

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