On 12/27/2009 07:20 AM, Kurian Thayil wrote: > Hi, > > Installed F12 and did a security update. Now, I get SELinux denial error. > SELinux currently in permissive mode. > > Summary: > > SELinux is preventing access to files with the label, file_t. > > Detailed Description: > > SELinux permission checks on files labeled file_t are being denied. file_t is > the context the SELinux kernel gives to files that do not have a label. This > indicates a serious labeling problem. No files on an SELinux box should ever be > labeled file_t. If you have just added a new disk drive to the system you can > relabel it using the restorecon command. Otherwise you should relabel the > entire > file system. > > Allowing Access: > > You can execute the following command as root to relabel your computer system: > "touch /.autorelabel; reboot" > > Additional Information: > > Source Context system_u:system_r:xdm_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 > Target Context system_u:object_r:file_t:s0 > Target Objects /home [ dir ] > Source gdm-simple-gree > Source Path /usr/libexec/gdm-simple-greeter > Port <Unknown> > Host home-desktop > Source RPM Packages gdm-2.28.1-24.fc12 > Target RPM Packages filesystem-2.4.30-2.fc12 > Policy RPM selinux-policy-3.6.32-41.fc12 > Selinux Enabled True > Policy Type targeted > MLS Enabled True > Enforcing Mode Enforcing > Plugin Name file > Host Name home-desktop > Platform Linux home-desktop 2.6.31.5-127.fc12.i686.PAE #1 > SMP Sat Nov 7 21:25:57 EST 2009 i686 i686 > Alert Count 1 > First Seen Thu 24 Dec 2009 02:30:08 AM IST > Last Seen Thu 24 Dec 2009 02:30:08 AM IST > Local ID 6b1ff85c-05fe-4d37-945b-6cd2d54b92fa > Line Numbers > > Raw Audit Messages > > node=home-desktop type=AVC msg=audit(1261602008.595:11510): avc: denied { > search } for pid=1357 comm="gdm-simple-gree" name="/" dev=sda2 ino=2 > scontext=system_u:system_r:xdm_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 > tcontext=system_u:object_r:file_t:s0 tclass=dir > > node=home-desktop type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1261602008.595:11510): arch=40000003 > syscall=292 success=no exit=-13 a0=12 a1=8d6f400 a2=1002fce a3=8d6ec48 items=0 > ppid=1325 pid=1357 auid=4294967295 uid=42 gid=473 euid=42 suid=42 fsuid=42 > egid=473 sgid=473 fsgid=473 tty=(none) ses=4294967295 comm="gdm-simple-gree" > exe="/usr/libexec/gdm-simple-greeter" subj=system_u:system_r:xdm_t:s0- > s0:c0.c1023 key=(null) > > Any idea why this happened after the update? What could be done to prevent > this. I am quite a newbie in SELinux scenario. Does, restorecon command fix > (restorecon /usr/libexec/gdm-simple-greeter)? Files in your homedir are mis-labelled. The easiest way to fix it is to > You can execute the following command as root to relabel your computer system: > "touch /.autorelabel; reboot" Andrew. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines