New policies installed. Minor problem & change(?)

Stephen Smalley sds at epoch.ncsc.mil
Thu Jun 3 13:37:46 UTC 2004


On Wed, 2004-06-02 at 13:55, Tom London wrote:
> ('fixfiles relabel/check' now fails if run in enforcing mode 
> ('Permission denied' for file_contexts). Works if you 'setenforce 0' 
> first. Did I miss a change?)

No, this is a bug in the policy; setfiles_t needs r_dir_file(setfiles_t,
file_context_t).

> 2). Also, there now is a complete absence of 'avc' messages in 
> /var/log/messages.  Is this expected?

No.  Auditing disabled in latest kernel for some reason.

> 3). I checked the scripts on the policy rpms and it looks like the 
> reference to 'POLICYTYPE' is gone (replaced with 'SELINUXTYPE').  Is it 
> safe to remove the 'POLICYTYPE=strict' line from /etc/sysconfig/selinux 
> and from /etc/selinux/config? Can I safely remove one file?

Yes, and only /etc/selinux/config should be used now.

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Stephen Smalley <sds at epoch.ncsc.mil>
National Security Agency




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