[CentOS] SELinux and access across 'similar types'

Philippe Naudin philippe.naudin at supagro.inra.fr
Fri Jan 6 10:24:08 UTC 2012


Le ven 06 jan 2012 02:00:27 CET, Bennett Haselton a écrit:

> On 1/5/2012 1:36 PM, Bennett Haselton wrote:
> ...
> OK, notwithstanding the fact that the filesystem on the above machine 
> needs to be re-labeled and I don't know why that's failing --
> 
> I have another CentOS 5.7 machine where I've enabled SELinux (permissive 
> mode) and relabeled the filesystem and it actually worked, so that the 
> above commands are now giving the expected outputs:
> 
> [root at g6950-21025 ~]# ps awuxZ | grep httpd | head -n 3
> system_u:system_r:init_t        root      2302  0.0  1.0 253056 10576 
> ?        Ss   00:12   0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd
> system_u:system_r:init_t        apache    4201  0.1  2.0 274804 20968 
> ?        S    01:26   0:02 /usr/sbin/httpd
> system_u:system_r:init_t        apache    4392  0.2  1.2 257308 12512 
> ?        S    01:39   0:01 /usr/sbin/httpd

Apache running as "init_t" is a call for troubles.
$ ps awuxZ | grep [a]pache
system_u:system_r:httpd_t       apache   ...  /usr/sbin/httpd

> [root at g6950-21025 ~]# ls -lZ /var/www/html/robots.txt
> -rw-rw-rw-  root root system_u:object_r:httpd_sys_content_t 
> /var/www/html/robots.txt

This is correct.

-- 
Philippe Naudin



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