On 03/04/2010 05:18 PM, Temlakos wrote:
> Daniel J Walsh wrote:
>> On 03/04/2010 01:33 PM, Temlakos wrote:
>>> Dominick Grift wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 03/04/2010 07:14 PM, Temlakos wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Anyway--in case I have to use that installer again, as I think I
>>>>> might,
>>>>> I'd like to have somebody go over those alerts--because they
>>>>> /have/ to
>>>>> be related, somehow. Here they are again:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> Just a comment:
>>>>
>>>> ausearch -m avc -ts ... does not show all denials in
>>>> /var/log/audit/audit.log
>>>>
>>>> There could also be user space AVC denials present which can be
>>>> listed with:
>>>>
>>>> ausearch -m user_avc -ts ...
>>>>
>>>> In some rare cases sone AVC denials may end up in dmesg and/or
>>>> /var/log/messages.
>>>>
>>>> Unfortunately i do not see anything in your enclosed AVC denials
>>>> that i
>>>> suspect may be related to your issue. Hopefully someone else does.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Well, I just tried searching on user_avc, even after un-hiding the
>>> alerts. Result:
>>>
>>> <no matches>
>>>
>>> So what I submitted, has to be it.
>>>
>>> But: might this have anything to do with it? I'm using KDE now, and
>>> one
>>> of the things that the installer had to do was to get into KWallet,
>>> and
>>> for that the system asked for my KWallet password, which I gave.
>>>
>>> I'm new to KDE, and I'm surprised that I didn't use it earlier.
KDE
>>> has
>>> an automatic package installer that has already made my life a lot
>>> simpler, and when I realized that I was using a lot of KDE-specific
>>> apps, KDE was the logical choice. But maybe KDE has some subtleties
>>> that
>>> occasionally create a security problem in a security-enhanced
>>> environment.
>>>
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>> I have seen installations trip over execmod,execmem and execstack
>> checks.
>>
>> Also if the tools use java, it can do some stuff that SELinux does not
>> like.
>>
>> getsebool allow_execstack allow_execmem allow_execmod
>>
>>
> allow_execstack --> on
> allow_execmem --> on
> allow_execmod --> off
>
> OK, what next?
>
> Temlakos
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Try installing with allow_execmod on.
setsebool allow_execmod 1
Done and thanks. Maybe next time I have to use AIR Installer, it will
behave.
It's nice to be able to enforce the security policy full-time.
Temlakos