Beginner question deciphering SELinux logs

[Lance Spitzner]

Thanks for the tremendous feedback so far, I appreciate it! I hope  
this is not bad form, but I would like to answer my own question, but  
then I have more questions.  The error below shows that Samba SMB  
service could not access 'home' which turns out to be /home.

System #ls -ldZ /home
drwxr-xr-x  root root system_u:object_r:home_root_t    /home

For some reason smbd_t cannot access home_root_t.  So I did a chcon  
on /home which fixed the problem.  My question is, by fixing the error  
have I made Samba more insecure, was this a bug, is there something I  
could do instead?

chcon system_u:object_r:user_home_dir_t /home

Thanks!

lance


> type=AVC msg=audit(1199209100.230:984): avc:  denied  { read } for   
> pid=26929 comm="smbd" name="home" dev=sdb1 ino=92504065  
> scontext=user_u:system_r:smbd_t:s0  
> tcontext=system_u:object_r:home_root_t:s0 tclass=dir
>
> type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1199209100.230:984): arch=40000003 syscall=5  
> success=no exit=-13 a0=93f9288 a1=18800 a2=bf85dccc a3=93f9268  
> items=0 ppid=22310 pid=26929 auid=500 uid=500 gid=0 euid=500 suid=0  
> fsuid=500 egid=500 sgid=0 fsgid=500 tty=(none) comm="smbd" exe="/usr/ 
> sbin/smbd" subj=user_u:system_r:smbd_t:s0 key=(null)