Description of problem: SELinux is preventing /usr/sbin/nginx from 'search' accesses on the directory mikhail. ***** Plugin catchall_boolean (47.5 confidence) suggests ******************* If you want to allow httpd to read user content Then you must tell SELinux about this by enabling the 'httpd_read_user_content' boolean. You can read 'None' man page for more details. Do setsebool -P httpd_read_user_content 1 ***** Plugin catchall_boolean (47.5 confidence) suggests ******************* If you want to allow httpd to enable homedirs Then you must tell SELinux about this by enabling the 'httpd_enable_homedirs' boolean. You can read 'None' man page for more details. Do setsebool -P httpd_enable_homedirs 1 ***** Plugin catchall (6.38 confidence) suggests *************************** If you believe that nginx should be allowed search access on the mikhail 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: # grep nginx /var/log/audit/audit.log | audit2allow -M mypol # semodule -i mypol.pp Additional Information: Source Context system_u:system_r:httpd_t:s0 Target Context unconfined_u:object_r:user_home_dir_t:s0 Target Objects mikhail [ dir ] Source nginx Source Path /usr/sbin/nginx Port <Unknown> Host (removed) Source RPM Packages nginx-1.4.1-1.fc19.i686 Target RPM Packages Policy RPM selinux-policy-3.12.1-57.fc19.noarch Selinux Enabled True Policy Type targeted Enforcing Mode Enforcing Host Name (removed) Platform Linux (removed) 3.9.8-300.fc19.i686.PAE #1 SMP Thu Jun 27 19:29:30 UTC 2013 i686 i686 Alert Count 2 First Seen 2013-06-30 15:03:20 YEKT Last Seen 2013-06-30 15:03:51 YEKT Local ID 34222e3e-37ef-4bfe-b3c9-9437f642a3fb Raw Audit Messages type=AVC msg=audit(1372583031.996:487): avc: denied { search } for pid=4551 comm="nginx" name="mikhail" dev="sdb" ino=74055681 scontext=system_u:system_r:httpd_t:s0 tcontext=unconfined_u:object_r:user_home_dir_t:s0 tclass=dir type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1372583031.996:487): arch=i386 syscall=open success=no exit=EACCES a0=b90e948d a1=8441 a2=1a4 a3=2 items=0 ppid=1 pid=4551 auid=4294967295 uid=0 gid=0 euid=0 suid=0 fsuid=0 egid=0 sgid=0 fsgid=0 ses=4294967295 tty=(none) comm=nginx exe=/usr/sbin/nginx subj=system_u:system_r:httpd_t:s0 key=(null) Hash: nginx,httpd_t,user_home_dir_t,dir,search Additional info: reporter: libreport-2.1.5 hashmarkername: setroubleshoot kernel: 3.9.8-300.fc19.i686.PAE type: libreport
If you want to allow apache to use content in your home dir you have to use one of the booleans suggested above.