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Description of problem: Documentation error: Footnote references incorrect package for the installation of audit2allow. In Section 8.3.8. "Allowing Access: audit2allow" of, http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/pdf/Security-Enhanced_Linux/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux-6-Security-Enhanced_Linux-en-US.pdf (footnote 9 on page 67 of the PDF version) the footnote states, "From the audit2allow(1) manual page, as shipped with the policycoreutils package in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6." audit2allow was not available unless the policycoreutils-sandbox package was installed. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Security-Enhanced Linux User Guide Edition 2.0 (http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/pdf/Security-Enhanced_Linux/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux-6-Security-Enhanced_Linux-en-US.pdf) How reproducible: Documentation error Steps to Reproduce: 1. Verify that policycoreutils is installed. 2. man audit2allow 3. Actual results: No manual entry for audit2allow Expected results: audit2allow page is displayed. Additional info: Install policycoreutils-sandbox. man audit2allow then displays the man page for audit2allow (and, more importantly, allows the use of audit2allow). This issue arose on a minimum install system with no GUI installed and we spent a good hour puzzling over why we had policycoreutils installed but could not access audit2allow. I note that the direct impact is low but it has the potential to lead to selinux being disabled if a user cannot resolve the "missing" audit2allow.
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Changed footnote to this: "From the audit2allow(1) manual page, which is available when the policycoreutils-sandbox package in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 is installed."