[ale] SElinux, Fedora3, and postgresql

[James P. Kinney III]

On Fri, 2004-11-26 at 14:28, Chris Ricker wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Nov 2004, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> 
> > What a combination. My head hurts.
> > 
> > I would _like_ to keep the selinux turned on but I can't get the policy
> > set right to allow access to the postgresql socket from a cgi script.=20
> > 
> > Google turns up no specific data on postgresql (other than Gentoo has a
> > million setups that don't work with Selinux). The Selinux site on NSA
> > covers up through FC2. Fedors mailing list has no info on Postgresql.
> > 
> > Any security gurus schlogging their way through SELinux and has some
> > wisdom to share?
> 
> What point are you at? Getting avc: denied errors? Are you running strict or 
> targeted policy?
yep. Targeted policy.

Nov 26 13:52:08 camelot kernel: audit(1101495128.034:0): avc:  denied  {
search } for  pid=3879 exe=/usr/bin/perl
scontext=root:system_r:httpd_sys_script_t
tcontext=system_u:object_r:sysctl_kernel_t tclass=dir
Nov 26 13:52:08 camelot kernel: audit(1101495128.034:0): avc:  denied  {
search } for  pid=3879 exe=/usr/bin/perl name=sys dev=proc
ino=4026531865 scontext=root:system_r:httpd_sys_script_t
tcontext=system_u:object_r:sysctl_t tclass=dir
Nov 26 13:52:08 camelot kernel: audit(1101495128.150:0): avc:  denied  {
write } for  pid=3879 exe=/usr/bin/perl name=.s.PGSQL.5432 dev=hda2
ino=3342343 scontext=root:system_r:httpd_sys_script_t
tcontext=root:object_r:tmp_t tclass=sock_file

> 
> later,
> chris
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