CVS Servers

[Stephen Smalley]

On Wed, 2008-02-13 at 18:23 -0800, Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
> In one of the Fedora CVS server setup, it says that if the
> administrator wants to use a simple pserver remote string
> such as:
> 
> export CVSROOT=':pserver:<username>@<systemname>:/cvs'
> 
> Then one has to:
> 
> 1) /etc/xinetd.d/cvs:
>     server_args             = -f --allow-root=/cvs pserver
> 2) ln -s /var/cvs /cvs
> 
> But the problem here is that SELinux has no context for
> the symbolic link /cvs, therefore deny's access.
> 
> I tried setting context for /cvs by:
> 1) chcon -t cvs_data_t
> 
> No dice.  Does not work.
> 
> To see if I can cvs login bypassing Selinux, I tried:
> 1) setenforce 0
> 2) cvs login (successfully)
> 3) setenforce 1
> 
> So, what can I do to get SElinux to authorize the /cvs symbolic link
> access to /var/cvs?

What avc denial do you get (/sbin/ausearch -i -m AVC)?

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Stephen Smalley
National Security Agency