[CentOS-docs] SELinux

Tue Aug 12 18:37:24 UTC 2008
Manuel Wolfshant <wolfy at nobugconsulting.ro>

On 08/12/2008 07:12 PM, Ned Slider wrote:
> Manuel Wolfshant wrote:
>> Ned Slider wrote:
>>> Hi list,
>>>
>>> I've knocked up a contribution on SELinux here:
>>>
>>> http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/SELinux
>>>
>>> I've tried to pitch it as an introduction for those not already 
>>> familiar with SELinux but also hopefully a useful reference.
>>>
>>> I'm relatively new to SELinux and have covered pretty much 
>>> everything I know to the limits of my limited knowledge. If folks 
>>> think other material needs to be covered then it may be more 
>>> appropriate for them to make the additions rather than me. Consider 
>>> it a "get the ball rolling" contribution that the community can add 
>>> to as necessary :)
>>>
>>> Comments welcomed,
>> I would add the following just before "Sumamry" (in case one wants to 
>> edit the rules suggested by audit2allow):
>>
>>    Building module policy manually
>>
>>
>> - grep sendmail /var/log/audit/audit.log | audit2allow -M postfix
>> - while reviewing the generated postfix.te
>>
>>    module local 1.0;
>>
>>    require {
>>            type httpd_log_t;
>>            type postfix_postdrop_t;
>>            class dir getattr;
>>            class file { read getattr };
>>    }
>>
>>    #============= postfix_postdrop_t ==============
>>    allow postfix_postdrop_t httpd_log_t:file getattr;
>>
>>
>
> Wolfy,
>
> Are you able to supply an example of the audit.log AVC message(s) that 
> are used to create this .te policy? It might be useful to show the 
> actual AVC error messages in explaining this process.
>
> Thanks,
here you are. I hope I have not trashed anything valuable but most of 
the info must be here



PS, for those who might be tempted to comment about the kernel version: 
I already know what you want to say.
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