Problem with audit2allow reference policy involving logs

[Daniel J Walsh]

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Forrest Taylor wrote:
> Running RHEL5.1 with with selinux-policy-strict-2.4.6-106.el5_1.3.
> 
> I am building my own policy for FTP and in creating the xferlog,
> audit2allow -alR gives this macro:
> 
> logging_search_logs(ftpd_t)
> 
> The problem is that this macros generates the following type transition:
> 
>    type_transition ftpd_t var_log_t : file sendmail_log_t;
> 
I think you are wrong here.

interface(`logging_search_logs',`
	gen_require(`
		type var_log_t;
	')

	files_search_var($1)
	allow $1 var_log_t:dir search_dir_perms;
')

> This, of course, is not really what I want, so I dropped the -R option
> to audit2allow and it returns:
> 
> allow ftpd_t var_log_t:dir search;
> 
> With the next iteration, audit2allow -alR shows:
> 
> sendmail_create_log(ftpd_t)
>
I have no idea where this comes from, I guess I would need to see you
log files.

> and audit2allow -la shows:
> 
> allow ftpd_t var_log_t:dir write;
> 
> Someone really liked sendmail_log_t ;o)
> 
> Forrest
> 
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