On Feb 2, 2011, at 00:34 , Don Krause wrote:

> Is selinux on a default install of SL6 Beta 1 supposed to prevent ypbind from working?

Probably:

# getsebool -a |grep yp
allow_ypbind --> off

Does "setsebool -P allow_ypbind on" make it work?

- Stephan


> I'm getting this error in the audit.log
> 
> type=USER_AVC msg=audit(1296601650.114:34350): user pid=2262 uid=81 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 subj=system_u:system_r:system_dbusd_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 msg='avc:  denied  { send_msg } for msgtype=method_call interface=org.freedesktop.NetworkManager member=state dest=org.freedesktop.NetworkManager spid=4805 tpid=3995 scontext=unconfined_u:system_r:ypbind_t:s0 tcontext=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 tclass=dbus : exe="/bin/dbus-daemon" sauid=81 hostname=? addr=? terminal=?'
> 
> When run through audit2allow, umm... damn, not found.. Hmm... Yeah, policycoreutils is installed.. wtf?
> 
> <begin rant>
> audit2allow was moved from policycoreutils to policycoreutils-python. Has it become a game at TUV to see how many separate packages can be built from one src.rpm?
> <end rant>
> 
> Sorry, distracted for a moment..
> 
> Anyway, after installing pcu-python for audit2allow, I get:
> 
> module ypbind 1.0;
> 
> require {
>        type unconfined_t;
>        type ypbind_t;
>        class dbus send_msg;
> }
> 
> #============= ypbind_t ==============
> allow ypbind_t unconfined_t:dbus send_msg;
> 
> 
> which looks reasonable, but I'm not an selinux guru. 

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Stephan Wiesand
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