Permission oddity (was: problems with mailman)

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Do, den 29.12.2005 schrieb Lic. Martin Marques um 13:08:

> OK, done some more reaserching and found this which is very odd:
> 
> [root at newweb shunt]# su - mailman -c "unset LANG;stat 
> /var/lib/mailman/archives/private/depto"
> stat: cannot stat `/var/lib/mailman/archives/private/depto': Permission 
> denied
> [root at newweb shunt]# stat /var/lib/mailman/archives/private/depto
>    File: `/var/lib/mailman/archives/private/depto'
>    Size: 4096            Blocks: 8          IO Block: 4096   directory
> Device: 900h/2304d      Inode: 8421391     Links: 35
> Access: (2775/drwxrwsr-x)  Uid: (   41/ mailman)   Gid: (   41/ mailman)
> Access: 2005-12-29 08:42:22.000000000 -0300
> Modify: 2005-02-16 17:24:18.000000000 -0300
> Change: 2005-12-29 08:42:22.000000000 -0300
> 
> Now, mailman is the owner, and has all permissions, so why can't he stat 
> the directory???

If you face such issues where the unix permissions match but you get
permission denied, then have a look at the SELinux logging output
(either messages syslog file or when auditd runs in audit.log). You may
temporary set SELinux into permissive mode by following command:
setenfore=0. In that mode SELinux just documents what it thinks about
actions of the system and logs them, but does not deny these actions.

Alexander


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