[CentOS-devel] Nagios + selinux

Thu Mar 1 10:52:01 UTC 2007
Jeff Sheltren <sheltren at cs.ucsb.edu>

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On Mar 1, 2007, at 3:47 AM, Christoph Maser wrote:

> Hi lists
>
> it seems the rpmforge nagios package does not work out of the box if
> selinux is turned on. A log from someone complaining about it (the
> nagios cgis) not working:
>
> ---
> [Thu Mar 01 15:58:30 2007] [notice] suEXEC mechanism enabled
> (wrapper: /usr/sbin/suexec)
> [Thu Mar 01 15:58:30 2007] [notice] Digest: generating secret for  
> digest authentication ...
> [Thu Mar 01 15:58:30 2007] [notice] Digest: done
> [Thu Mar 01 15:58:30 2007] [notice] LDAP: Built with OpenLDAP LDAP SDK
> [Thu Mar 01 15:58:30 2007] [notice] LDAP: SSL support unavailable
> [Thu Mar 01 15:58:30 2007] [notice] mod_python: Creating 4 session  
> mutexes based on 256 max processes and 0 max threads.
> [Thu Mar 01 15:58:30 2007] [notice] Apache/2.0.52 (CentOS)  
> configured -- resuming normal operations
> [Thu Mar 01 15:58:38 2007] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] (13) 
> Permission denied: exec of '/usr/lib/nagios/cgi/status.cgi' failed,  
> referer: http://127.0.0.1/nagios/side.html
> [Thu Mar 01 15:58:38 2007] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] Premature end  
> of script headers: status.cgi, referer: http://127.0.0.1/nagios/ 
> side.html
> [Thu Mar 01 15:58:39 2007] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] (13) 
> Permission denied: exec of '/usr/lib/nagios/cgi/tac.cgi' failed,  
> referer: http://127.0.0.1/nagios/side.html
> ---
>
> I would like to make proper rules for this rpm but i have  
> absolutely no clue about selinux and policies. Any hints what to  
> read, where to start?
>
> Chris
>

I've found this helpful:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SELinux

- -Jeff

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