[refpolicy] SELinux policy for Hadoop

[jkhosali@nps.edu (Jean Khosalim)]

Yes, I did.

Jean Khosalim

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christopher J. PeBenito [mailto:cpebenito at tresys.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2012 11:46 AM
> To: Jean Khosalim
> Cc: refpolicy at oss.tresys.com
> Subject: Re: [refpolicy] SELinux policy for Hadoop
> 
> On 02/08/12 14:29, Jean Khosalim wrote:
> > I built a Fedora 16 system and installed Cloudera's CDH3 (with
> Hadoop-0.20).
> > SElinux is enforcing and policy used is 'targeted'. Ran a simple
> wordcount
> > example and it works. But I noticed that the Hadoop related processes
> are
> > running with 'system_u:system_r:initrc_t:s0'. I was expecting
> hadoop_t
> > instead of initrc_t. I also noticed that there is no 'hadoop.pp' in
> > /etc/selinux/targeted/modules/active/modules directory.
> >
> >
> >
> > I ran 'yum update' on the system and force autorelabel on boot (add
> > 'enforcing=0 autorelabel' to grub). After reboot, it looks like
> nothing
> > changed, i.e., Hadoop related processes still run with
> > 'system_u:system_r:initrc_t:s0' and there is no 'hadoop.pp' in
> > /etc/selinux/targeted/modules/active/modules directory.
> >
> >
> >
> > Then I downloaded the source rpm for selinux-policy-3.10.0-
> 75.fc16.src.rpm.
> > Looking at the source files, I noticed that modules_targeted.conf
> doesn't
> > have 'hadoop'. I modified the file to add in 'hadoop' and ran
> 'rpmbuild -ba
> > ./rpmbuild/SPECS/selinux-policy.spec' which generated a new set of
> rpm. I
> > did a force rpm install of the newly created
> > selinux-policy-3.10.0-75.fc16.noarch.rpm and
> > selinux-policy-targeted-3.10.0-75.fc16.noarch.rpm. Then I rebooted
> the
> > system.
> >
> >
> >
> > After the reboot, I now see 'hadoop.pp' IS in
> > /etc/selinux/targeted/modules/active/modules directory and the hadoop
> > related processes are now running with
> > 'system_u:system_r:unconfined_java_t:s0'. Is my expectation that the
> hadoop
> > related processes will run as 'hadoop_t' incorrect? Are there any
> steps that
> > I am missing?
> 
> Did you relabel after you updated the policy?
> 
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> Chris PeBenito
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