On Tuesday 27 September 2011 19:17:17 Daniel J Walsh wrote:

> On 09/27/2011 11:26 AM, Tony Molloy wrote:

> > On Monday 26 September 2011 22:22:31 Dominick Grift wrote:

> >> On Mon, 2011-09-26 at 15:00 +0100, Tony Molloy wrote:

> >>> Hi,

> >>>

> >>> On a fully updated CentOS 5.7 box I get the following AVC

> >>> SELinux is preventing unix_update (updpwd_t) "getattr" to /

> >>> (fs_t).

> >>>

> >>> Raw Audit Message

> >>>

> >>> host=a.b.c.d type=AVC msg=audit(1317043134.620:3620): avc:

> >>> denied

> >>>

> >>> { getattr } for pid=21354 comm="unix_update" name="/" dev=sda5

> >>>

> >>> ino=2 scontext=system_u:system_r:updpwd_t:s0

> >>>

> >>> tcontext=system_u:object_r:fs_t:s0 tclass=filesystem

> >>>

> >>>

> Probably has to do with the way the mount table is setup on this

> machine versus other machines.

Now I've just noticed some other SElinux problems on this machine.

Unusual System Events

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Sep 24 13:25:24 garryowen ssh: /etc/selinux/targeted/contexts/files/file_contexts: Multiple same specifications for /home/[^/]*/.+.

Sep 24 13:25:24 garryowen ssh: /etc/selinux/targeted/contexts/files/file_contexts: Multiple same specifications for /home/[^/]*/.virtinst(/.*)?.

.....

Now some time ago I moved some test mail accounts on this machine from /users to /home and ran genhomedircon.

There is a file in /etc/selinux/targeted/contexts/files/ called file_contexts.homedirs, generated by genhomedircon, which contains context information for /home.

Could this multiple definitions be the root cause of the problem

Should I remove this file and autorelabel the entire filesystem again.

Thanks,

Tony