Description of problem: After installing nginx ('A high performance web server and reverse proxy server'), when using it as reverse-proxy, one needs to configure a directory for the proxy cache (cf. `proxy_cache_path`). The directory /var/cache/nginx would be a good default choice, but it doesn't exist and there aren't any selinux filecontexts for it. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): nginx-1.14.2-1.fc29.x86_64 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. install nginx 2. add to the config: proxy_cache_path /var/cache/nginx/manpath levels=1:2 keys_zone=foo_cache:10m max_size=10g inactive=60m use_temp_path=off; 3. configure caching for a `server {}` config 4. access some urls Actual results: selinux AVC Expected results: No selinux AVC, /var/cache/nginx is available after nginx installation. And requests are being cached. Additional info: Note that there are already some cache directories for some other http daemons: # semanage fcontext -l | grep http | grep cache [..] /var/cache/httpd(/.*)? all files system_u:object_r:httpd_cache_t:s0 /var/cache/lighttpd(/.*)? all files system_u:object_r:httpd_cache_t:s0 [..] The seemingly generic /var/cache/httpd can't be used by nginx because the unix permissions are too strict: # ls -ldZ /var/cache/httpd drwx------. 1 apache apache system_u:object_r:httpd_cache_t:s0 10 2019-04-02 17:46 /var/cache/httpd # ls -ldZ /var/cache/httpd/proxy drwx------. 1 apache apache system_u:object_r:httpd_cache_t:s0 0 2019-05-11 14:27 /var/cache/httpd/proxy Thus, as a work-around, one has to execute the following steps to use nginx as reverse-proxy (on a system with enabled selinux): # mkdir /var/cache/nginx # semanage fcontext -a -t httpd_cache_t '/var/cache/nginx(/.*)?' # restorecon -rv /var/cache/nginx
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Reassigning this to selinux-policy-targeted as this makes sense from my perspective and I support this change as the package maintainer of nginx. I'll add the path as %ghost to the spec file in the next update of the package.
commit dee19b8b41fcf9ca57e9e019b30b112a7546c030 (HEAD -> rawhide, origin/rawhide, origin/HEAD) Author: Lukas Vrabec <lvrabec> Date: Fri Nov 1 17:42:31 2019 +0100 Label /var/cache/nginx as httpd_cache_t Resolves: rhbz#1708897
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 32 development cycle. Changing version to 32.
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