Re: selinux file attributes

[Daniel J Walsh <dwalsh redhat com>]

Gene Czarcinski wrote:

> OK, I just did a fresh everything install with today's development snapshot 
> and it is looking good.  I let things default to enforcing and was able to 
> login.
>
> However ... I then added a couple of other userids.  Before doing that with 
> system-config-users, I edited to /etc/security/selinux/src/users file to 
> define one of these as an "admin" user.
>
> Oops, I cannot login because it cannot find the home directory (because it has 
> incompatible attributes).  OK, so I login as root (role=sysadm_r) and run 
> "fixfiles relabel".  Then I logout but now gdm cannot come up!  OK, go to a 
> VT and login as root ... run "make reload" and "make relabel" and then 
> reboot.
>
> While s-c-u should handle the application of proper attributes (it needs to be 
> selinux aware and supporting), I should not need to keep running relabel.
>  
Yes, s-c-u needs to be more SELinux aware.  Currently user management 
needs to be worked on before final release.

> One of the other things I noticed is that after installation the partitions 
> lost-found directory did not have any attributes ... after running relabel it 
> did.  Shouldn't this be handled by the installer?  I wonder what happens if 
> you format a new partition?
>  
>
> Gene
>
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