Re: audit ... denied messages

[Timothy Wood <timothy@diyab.net>]

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Lee wrote:

| I just installed all the SELinux stuff on a Slackware 10 box using a
| 2.6.7 kernel.  I tried going about it myself, but wasn't making good
| progress and then found some packages from http://www.diyab.net/selinux/
| and installed those.
|
| When I first booted with SELinux=1, I saw a bunch of audit <...> denied
| <...> <program> <context> messages during my init and such.

Are you passing enforcing=1 to the kernel at boot time?

|
| Everything "seemed" to still be working, as far as my system went, so I
| tried logging in, and it worked.  When I did a make relabel, it seemed
| to work, but when I later checked dmesg for something, I had several
| screens (at approx 132x60) full of these audit ... denied messages, all
| in relation to relabeling.

Those packages will give you basic system functionality while in
enforcing mode.  Some services and other things will need the policy
fixed, at least somewhat, in order for them to work in enforcing mode.

|
| So my questions have a few aspects to them.  Namely, do I need to be
| concerned about these messages, and what can I do to make them go away?
| ~ I don't really know what I'm doing here and am probably not as read up
| as I should be, but I suspect, and am hoping, that this is just due to
| the way my policiy is set up and will be easy to correct.
|

Can you include some of these messages?

| I'd appreciate any help, and I'll be going through the docs that I do
| have while waiting for a response from here.  FWIW, pointers to (more)
| docs that address this would be more appreciated than just "do this,
| that and the other", but I'll take what I can get, and will appreciate it.
|
| Thanks.
| --
| ~  == FriedBob ==
|
| "Hence to fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme
| excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's
| resistance without fighting."
| ~  - Sun Tzu


Timothy,
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