[CentOS] SELinux and access across 'similar types'

Sun Jan 8 14:15:23 UTC 2012
Bennett Haselton <bennett at peacefire.org>

On 1/8/2012 5:36 AM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote:
> On 01/08/2012 02:10 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote:
>>> [root at g6950-21025 ~]# restorecon -v /tmp/hostname_SKYSLICE.INFO
>>>>   [root at g6950-21025 ~]# ls -lZ /tmp/hostname_SKYSLICE.INFO
>>>>   -rw-r--r--  apache apache system_u:object_r:file_t
>>>>   /tmp/hostname_SKYSLICE.INFO
>>>>   [root at g6950-21025 ~]#
>> Well...
>>
>> With this output I would say that your policy has been customized to have
>> file_t as the default label for that file. Have you used audit2allow on that
>> machine before the filesystem was properly relabeled?
> That file is in the /tpm folder, used by apache. I guess that apache was
> not stopped since/during relabeling so it stayed.
It's a file created by one of my CGI scripts.  (The web server is 
accessed by several hostnames which are dynamically assigned to it, and 
I need a quick way of determining all hostnames that were recently used 
to access the server.  So when someone accesses the server using 
HOSTNAME, the file /tmp/hostname_<hostname> is created.  Then another 
script just pulls the names of all of those files in order to find all 
recently used hostnames.)
> My suggestion:
>
> stop apache
> run relabeling again (if file continues to exists)
> start apache
> check

Well when I was doing the relabeling I was doing:
# touch /.autorelabel
# reboot

So when I'm rebooting apache stops and starts anyway, doesn't it?  
Doesn't the auto-relabel occur before other services are started up?  So 
I'm not sure what I would actually do differently to follow this 
suggestion...