After making a fresh installation of Fedora 26 Workstation x86_64, I started to restore local file backups, including my entire home directory, virtual machines from /var/lib/libvirt/, /root/.bashrc, and a few things in /etc/, using rsync. During this operation, I hit *a lot* of SE Linux alerts, including this one, plus others that have already recently been reported. SELinux is preventing auditd from search access on the directory root. ***** Plugin catchall (100. confidence) suggests ************************** If you believe that auditd should be allowed search access on the root directory by default. Then you should report this as a bug. You can generate a local policy module to allow this access. Do allow this access for now by executing: # ausearch -c 'auditd' --raw | audit2allow -M my-auditd # semodule -X 300 -i my-auditd.pp Additional Information: Source Context system_u:system_r:auditd_t:s0 Target Context unconfined_u:object_r:user_home_t:s0 Target Objects root [ dir ] Source auditd Source Path auditd Port <Unknown> Host jean.localdomain Source RPM Packages Target RPM Packages filesystem-3.2-40.fc26.x86_64 Policy RPM selinux-policy-3.13.1-259.fc26.noarch Selinux Enabled True Policy Type targeted Enforcing Mode Enforcing Host Name jean.localdomain Platform Linux jean.localdomain 4.11.8-300.fc26.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu Jun 29 20:09:48 UTC 2017 x86_64 x86_64 Alert Count 1 First Seen 2017-07-16 00:53:30 PDT Last Seen 2017-07-16 00:53:30 PDT Local ID a8d8469e-3f3a-4b9c-bb7a-07e05f6e665d Raw Audit Messages type=AVC msg=audit(1500191610.923:4537): avc: denied { search } for pid=904 comm="auditd" name="root" dev="dm-0" ino=256 scontext=system_u:system_r:auditd_t:s0 tcontext=unconfined_u:object_r:user_home_t:s0 tclass=dir permissive=0 Hash: auditd,auditd_t,user_home_t,dir,search
I'm not sure which "root" directory it's talking about -- / or /root/ or something else?
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1471544 ***