From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux ppc; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050719 Fedora/1.7.10-1.5.1 Description of problem: I was told that the proper way to get anonymous ftp uploading /and/ downloading to work is to chcon -t ftpd_anon_rw_t those directories off /var/ftp where I want to allow users to upload. I now have # ls -lZ /var/ftp drwxr-xr-x root root system_u:object_r:ftpd_anon_t FC3-PPC drwxrwxrwt root root system_u:object_r:ftpd_anon_rw_t incoming drwxr-xr-x root root system_u:object_r:ftpd_anon_t RH8.0 and yet, when I log in anonymously via ftp and type ls -l, I get drwxr-xr-x 7 0 0 4096 Jul 17 22:16 FC3-PPC drwxr-xr-x 7 0 0 4096 Jul 17 21:46 RH8.0 and type=AVC msg=audit(1123030303.030:11822060): avc: denied { getattr } for pid=309 comm="vsftpd" name="incoming" dev=hda1 ino=2256658 scontext=system_u:system_r:ftpd_t tcontext=system_u:object_r:ftpd_anon_rw_t tclass=dir type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1123030303.030:11822060): arch=40000003 syscall=196 success=no exit=-13 a0=866b828 a1=866b838 a2=df4ff4 a3=41ceec items=1 pid=309 auid=4294967295 uid=14 gid=50 euid=14 suid=14 fsuid=14 egid=50 sgid=50 fsgid=50 comm="vsftpd" exe="/usr/sbin/vsftpd" type=AVC_PATH msg=audit(1123030303.030:11822060): path="/incoming" type=CWD msg=audit(1123030303.030:11822060): cwd="/" type=PATH msg=audit(1123030303.030:11822060): item=0 name="incoming" flags=0 inode=2256658 dev=03:01 mode=041777 ouid=0 ogid=0 rdev=00:00 in /var/log/audit/audit.log . So, how do I get anonymous ftp r/w to work ? Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): selinux-policy-targeted-1.25.3-6 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install FC4 with vsftpd 2. Create /var/ftp/incoming and chcon it to ftpd_anon_rw_t 3. Attempt to access /incoming anonymously over ftp Actual Results: I couldn't change directories, and I got the above-mentioned audit messages. Expected Results: I should have been able to access the directory just fine. Additional info: This might have b0rken starting with selinux-policy-targeted-1.25.3-6 .
With selinux-policy-targeted-1.25.3-9, I still need allow ftpd_t ftpd_anon_rw_t:dir { search read getattr write add_name }; allow ftpd_t ftpd_anon_rw_t:file { getattr create append } ; to make anonymous r/w work.
Sorry. Make that second line allow ftpd_t ftpd_anon_rw_t:file { getattr create append read } ;
You don't need those. You can turn it on with the allow_ftpd_anon_write boolean. setsebool -P allow_ftpd_anon_write=1