Created attachment 330839 [details] setroubleshoot alert for above Description of problem: Issued "setsebool -P samba_enable_home_dirs=1" dozens of times, still getting still getting selinux_alerts as attached Maybe wrong package - adjust as necessary Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): $ rpm -q --whatprovides setsebool no package provides setsebool $ rpm -q setools package setools is not installed Give up... How reproducible: Seems consistent fail Steps to Reproduce: 1. Share home directories via samba 2. Get attached setroubleshoot selinux_alerts 3. "Issue setsebool -P samba_enable_home_dirs=1" command Actual results: Alerts Expected results: No alerts Additional info: Attached selinux_alert care of setroubleshoot
This is not setools, this is a policy issue.
You have a labeling problem in your homedir, caused by not having this boolean set and running in permissive mode. restorecon -R -v /home Should fix the problem.
OK, but I can't see selecting "permissive mode" and then having the above problem is not a bug? Selecting "permissive mode" is a normal/usual function available via system-config-selinux.py and the least it should do for this not to be a bug is throw up a warning that the above command needs to be executed (if not executing the command itself). Further, it caused this bug https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=483917, which is perhaps not a bug if this is a bug... (Or, perhaps it's a bug if this isn't.) So, I've reopened.
The reason you were able to create the file in the homedir is because you were in permissive mode. SELinux policy does not know the difference, the kernel reports the error to you and the system creates the file. But now that I think about it, this is a bug in policy. policy should still do the transitions outside of the booleans, so the file context is maintained. Miroslav can you look through the policy and check out anywhere these is a file transition rule within a boolean. Then move it outside.
Effects at least Samba, nfs, ftp
Fixed in selinux-policy-3.5.13-45.fc10
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