[CentOS] SELinux issue?

[m.roth at 5-cent.us]

Chuck Campbell wrote:
>
> I've recently built a new mail server with centos6.5, and decided to bite
> the bullet and leave SELinux running. I've stumbled through making
things work
> and am mostly there.
>
> I've got my own spam and ham corpus as mbox files in
> /home/user/Mail/learned.
> These files came from my backup of the centos 5 server this machine is
> replacing.
>
> The folder is owned by the user (the following is run as root):
> ls -laF learned
> drw-------. 6 user group   4096 Jun 10 03:35 ./
> drw-------. 6 user group  35864Jun 10 03:35 ../
> drw-------. 6 user group   4096 Jun 10 03:35 2004/
> -rw-------. 6 user group 155296 Jun 10 03:35 2014_10_Jun_learned_spam
> -rw-------. 6 user group 996584 Jun 10 03:35 2014_10_Jun_learned_ham
>
> also as root:
> ls -laZlearned
> drw-------. 6 user group unconfined_u:object_r:mail_spool_t:s0.
> drw-------. 6 user group unconfined_u:object_r:mail_spool_t:s0..
> drw-------. 6 user group unconfined_u:object_r:mail_spool_t:s02004
> -rw-------. 6 user group
> system_u:object_r:mail_spool_t:s02014_10_Jun_learned_spam
> -rw-------. 6 user group
> system_u:object_r:mail_spool_t:s02014_10_Jun_learned_ham
>
> When I do the same as the user, I get this:
> ls -laF learned
> ls: cannot access learned/2004: Permission denied
> ls: cannot access 2014_10_Jun_learned_spam: Permission denied
> ls: cannot access 2014_10_Jun_learned_ham: Permission denied
<snip>
Yup, you will. The *directories* have to be executable for you to look in
them.

      mark