[ale] Another bug in FC3

James P. Kinney III jkinney at localnetsolutions.com
Thu Dec 9 22:54:35 EST 2004


In general, a customized configuration file is NOT touched during an
upgrade with RPM 4+ (one of the reasons for upgrading rpm).

With FC3, a yum update moved a custom policy file to <policyfile>.rpmnew
and installed the new policy with the original name. Suddenly, the
webscripts quite talking to the database.

For the 'new to SELinux' crowd, audit2allow is a great tool that will
generate a new policy string to allow the disallowed action. It is not
perfect (i.e. need apache to be able to write to the postgresql socket
ONLY, not just write to _any_ socket which is what audit2allow
generates) but it will sure the system functioning (with no less
security than pre-SELinux).

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