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+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #867291 +++

Hi,

would it be possible to have chown capability for dhcpd_t.

Reason:
dhcpd is de-rooting (changing effective user/group ID) itself during start, but before doing it it creates /var/lib/dhcpd/*.leases file. The leases file can't be created after de-rooting because of bug #765967.
In selinux-policy-3.10.0-72.fc16 dhcpd got dac_override to be able to create root:root owned files in /var/lib/dhcpd, which is owned by dhcpd:dhcpd.
Because we need the leases file to be also dhcpd:dhcpd owned the reporter of bug #866714 suggested to chown them after creating, which seems to work but we need to tweak the SELinux policy, see bug #866714, comment #11.

--- Additional comment from Miroslav Grepl on 2012-10-17 16:33:39 CEST ---

Added to -40.fc18

We need the same change in RHEL6, so we can fix bug #1067142.

patch sent to Miroslav.

commit 30d7c568dcf280caa308292bdc8f00eff9b29eab
Author: Lukas Vrabec <lvrabec>
Date:   Tue Apr 29 12:16:30 2014 +0200

    Added chown capability to dhcpd_t domain

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-2014-1568.html

*** Bug 1161537 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***