Bug 368281

Summary: makedb cannot make db files outside of /var/db
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Reporter: Sean Dilda <agrajag>
Component: nss_dbAssignee: Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Brian Brock <bbrock>
Severity: low Docs Contact:
Priority: low    
Version: 5.0   
Target Milestone: ---   
Target Release: ---   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version: RHBA-2007-1145 Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Story Points: ---
Clone Of: Environment:
Last Closed: 2007-12-20 16:39:34 UTC Type: ---
Regression: --- Mount Type: ---
Documentation: --- CRM:
Verified Versions: Category: ---
oVirt Team: --- RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
Cloudforms Team: --- Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:
Bug Depends On:    
Bug Blocks: 368501    

Description Sean Dilda 2007-11-06 14:54:06 UTC 
Description of problem:

When attempting to create a db file outside of /var/db, makedb gives an error
about being unable to determine the context for the file.

It works fine if the file is in /var/db.  I believe this is related to the fix
for https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=136522

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

nss_db-2.2-35.1

How reproducible:

Every time


Steps to Reproduce:
1.  mkdir /tmp/foo
2.  Edit /var/db/Makefile so that the VAR_DB line points to /tmp/foo
3.  cd /var/db ; make
  
Actual results:

[root@svartalfheim db]# make
passwd... makedb: cannot determine file context for `/tmp/foo/passwd.db'
make: *** [/tmp/foo/passwd.db] Error 1


Expected results:

passwd... done.
group... done.
protocols... done.
rpc... done.
services... done.
shadow... done.


Additional info:
Comment 1 Nalin Dahyabhai 2007-11-06 16:43:22 UTC 
Should be a relatively simple change to the patch which adds labeling of files.
 Test cases will entail calling makedb directly using various destination
filenames, in permissive and enforcing mode, and making sure that it exits with
an error message only if the file is supposed to have a specific label, passing
that label to setfscreatecon() generated an error, and we're in enforcing mode.
Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2007-12-20 16:39:34 UTC 
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2007-1145.html