Bug 913191

Summary: Old selinux man page and missing some additional info about switching the policy
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: Michal Trunecka <mtruneck>
Component: man-pages-overridesAssignee: Peter Schiffer <pschiffe>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Iveta Wiedermann <isenfeld>
Severity: medium Docs Contact:
Priority: unspecified    
Version: 6.4CC: dwalsh, ebenes, isenfeld, ovasik, pschiffe, tlavigne
Target Milestone: rcKeywords: ManPageChange, Patch
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Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Fixed In Version: Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Cause: outdated selinux(8) man page Consequence: outdated documentation Fix: update selinux(8) man page Result: current documentation
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Clone Of: 913184 Environment:
Last Closed: 2013-11-21 22:56:02 UTC Type: Bug
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Bug Depends On: 913184    
Bug Blocks: 1011145    
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Description Flags
selinux.8.patch
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selinux.8.patch none

Description Michal Trunecka 2013-02-20 15:54:02 UTC
+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #913184 +++

Description of problem:

There are a few pieces of information in the selinux man page (man selinux) that aren't true any more:

"At present, two kinds of SELinux policy exist: targeted and strict."

"It is anticipated in the future that other policies will be created (Multi-Level Security for  example)."


and I also miss some additional information about switching the policy there. There is only stated that I can switch policy by changing the SELINUXTYPE value in /etc/selinux/config, but there is no information about when this change actually happen. I belive it is necessary to reboot the machine, but that is not mentioned there. Since a lot of tools takes the policy type from the config file, the system is in somewhat inconsistent state right after editing the configuration.


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

# rpm -qf /usr/share/man/man8/selinux.8.gz
libselinux-utils-2.1.13-3.el7.x86_64

Comment 2 Peter Schiffer 2013-09-19 13:55:22 UTC
Created attachment 799958 [details]
selinux.8.patch

Comment 8 Peter Schiffer 2013-10-24 12:53:10 UTC
Created attachment 815764 [details]
selinux.8.patch

Comment 12 errata-xmlrpc 2013-11-21 22:56:02 UTC
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2013-1695.html