[redhat-lspp] BUG: semanage not working (bad path for "setfiles")

Klaus Weidner klaus at atsec.com
Thu Jun 1 15:56:11 UTC 2006


"semanage login -a" doesn't work using policycoreutils-1.30.10-4 :

	# semanage login -a operator 
	libsemanage.semanage_install_active: setfiles returned error code 1.
	libsemanage.semanage_install_active: setfiles returned error code 1.
	/usr/sbin/semanage: Could not add login mapping for operator

The problem seems to be that it's trying to run /usr/sbin/setfiles which
doesn't exist:

	pid  1916] execve("/usr/sbin/setfiles", ["/usr/sbin/setfiles", "-q", "-c", "/etc/selinux/mls/policy/policy.2"..., "/etc/selinux/mls/contexts/files/"...], [/* 0 vars */]) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)

As a workaround, a symlink (ln -s /sbin/setfiles /usr/sbin/setfiles)
makes semanage work again as expected.

The system was a fresh install of FC5 plus the following packages:

	audit-1.2.3-1.i386.rpm
	audit-libs-1.2.3-1.i386.rpm
	audit-libs-devel-1.2.3-1.i386.rpm
	audit-libs-python-1.2.3-1.i386.rpm
	glibc-kernheaders-3.0-36.i386.rpm
	kernel-2.6.16-1.2212.2.4_FC6.lspp.31.i686.rpm
	kernel-devel-2.6.16-1.2212.2.4_FC6.lspp.31.i686.rpm
	libsemanage-1.6.7-3.i386.rpm
	libsemanage-devel-1.6.7-3.i386.rpm
	libsepol-1.12.14-1.i386.rpm
	libsepol-devel-1.12.14-1.i386.rpm
	policycoreutils-1.30.10-4.i386.rpm
	selinux-policy-2.2.43-3.noarch.rpm
	selinux-policy-mls-2.2.43-3.noarch.rpm
	selinux-policy-targeted-2.2.43-3.noarch.rpm

-Klaus




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