-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 01/05/2012 04:36 PM, Bennett Haselton wrote: > http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/SELinux says: "Access is only allowed > between similar types, so Apache running as httpd_t can read > /var/www/html/index.html of type httpd_sys_content_t." > > however the doc doesn't define what "similar types" means. I > assumed it just meant "beginning with the same prefix". However > that can't be right because on my system with SELinux turned on, > httpd runs as type init_t: > > [root at peacefire04 - /root # ps awuxZ | grep httpd | head -n 3 > system_u:system_r:init_t:s0 root 2521 0.1 0.4 21680 > 8820 ? Ss 05:05 0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd > system_u:system_r:init_t:s0 apache 2550 0.0 0.4 23364 > 8920 ? S 05:05 0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd > system_u:system_r:init_t:s0 apache 2551 0.1 0.4 22736 > 8212 ? S 05:05 0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd > > and the robots.txt file has type file_t: [root at peacefire04 - /root > # ls -lZ /var/www/html/robots.txt -rw-rw-rw- root root > system_u:object_r:file_t:s0 /var/www/html/robots.txt > > but Apache can of course access that file. So in Type Enforcement, > what determines what process type can access what file type? > > Bennett _______________________________________________ CentOS > mailing list CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos Your machine needs to be relabeled. touch /.autorelabel reboot -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk8GGk4ACgkQrlYvE4MpobMVkgCfVagwQqbzB2UW1+TEsrrCVhF5 lFkAnjLTi3zphekGomv04ZyMu0sOuopg =cIvM -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----