Invalid Security Context error

Invalid Security Context error

[Dhruv Gami]

Hello Everyone,

finally i managed to compile everything, though some of the patches
needed manual changes (will post a list of patches that didnt work
properly).

Now, when i rebooted the machine for the first time after compiling
everything, and following the README doc step by step, i was asked

-------------
login: root
password: *****

would you like to enter a security context? [y]
       Enter role sysadm_r
       Enter type sysadm_t
Not a valid security context
-------------

have i missed some context setting somewhere ?

regards,
Gami


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Re: Invalid Security Context error

[Carlos Anisio Monteiro]

Dhruv Gami wrote:

>Hello Everyone,
>
>finally i managed to compile everything, though some of the patches
>needed manual changes (will post a list of patches that didnt work
>properly).
>
>Now, when i rebooted the machine for the first time after compiling
>everything, and following the README doc step by step, i was asked
>
>-------------
>login: root
>password: *****
>
>would you like to enter a security context? [y]
>       Enter role sysadm_r
>       Enter type sysadm_t
>Not a valid security context
>-------------
>
>have i missed some context setting somewhere ?
>
>regards,
>Gami
>
>
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>
You need load the policies in  the initrd. The initrd is executed before 
the init process.
Otherwise, the SElinux not load the context correctly.



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Carlos Anisio Monteiro  <monteiro@ipen.br>
IPEN/CNEN-SP
Sao Paulo - Brasil




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Re: Invalid Security Context error

[Stephen Smalley]

On Sun, 2003-11-09 at 00:45, Dhruv Gami wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
> 
> finally i managed to compile everything, though some of the patches
> needed manual changes (will post a list of patches that didnt work
> properly).
> 
> Now, when i rebooted the machine for the first time after compiling
> everything, and following the README doc step by step, i was asked
> 
> -------------
> login: root
> password: *****
> 
> would you like to enter a security context? [y]
>        Enter role sysadm_r
>        Enter type sysadm_t
> Not a valid security context
> -------------
> 
> have i missed some context setting somewhere ?
> 
> regards,
> Gami

This implies that you never loaded a policy during initialization.
You can either perform the load via an initrd as described in
the README, or you can use Dan's patched init program.

-- 
Stephen Smalley <sds@epoch.ncsc.mil>
National Security Agency


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