failed to customize policy, SELinux won't let me

[Florin Andrei]

On Wed, 2006-05-03 at 13:04 -0400, Stephen Smalley wrote:

> Yes, I noticed this as well - semanage/semodule policy doesn't appear to
> allow it to take input from user home directories presently.  Nice from
> an integrity point of view (don't take untrustworthy inputs), but likely
> not workable for every day usage.

Still not working:

[root at stantz custom]# pwd
/etc/selinux/custom
[root at stantz custom]# ls -Z
-rw-r--r--  root     root     user_u:object_r:selinux_config_t local.fc
-rw-r--r--  root     root     user_u:object_r:selinux_config_t local.if
-rw-r--r--  root     root     user_u:object_r:selinux_config_t local.pp
-rw-r--r--  root     root     user_u:object_r:selinux_config_t local.te
drwxr-xr-x  root     root     user_u:object_r:selinux_config_t tmp
[root at stantz custom]# semodule -i local.pp
libsemanage.semanage_commit_sandbox: Error while
renaming /etc/selinux/targeted/modules/active
to /etc/selinux/targeted/modules/previous.
semodule:  Failed!
[root at stantz custom]# tail -n 1 /var/log/messages
May  3 10:02:51 stantz kernel: audit(1146675771.487:308): avc:  denied
{ rename } for  pid=3845 comm="semodule" name="active" dev=hda4
ino=2319743 scontext=user_u:system_r:semanage_t:s0
tcontext=user_u:object_r:selinux_config_t:s0 tclass=dir

:-(

-- 
Florin Andrei

http://florin.myip.org/