Problem with selinux

Adam Tkac atkac at redhat.com
Mon Jul 14 07:55:03 UTC 2008


On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 09:57:47AM +0100, Lars Hecking wrote:
> 
>  While we're on the issue of random ports, has anyone thought of how to
>  configure selinux for the new port-randomising bind versions?
>

As far as I know new SELinux policy was released with updated bind
packages. Make sure you updated bind* and selinux-policy* packages
together.
 
>  Previous bind versions were easy to administer in this regard, without
>  in-depth knowledge of selinux: run audit2allow on /var/log/messages,
>  create and deploy named policy. Maybe repeat once or twice until all
>  operations performed by named have been caught.
> 
>  This can no longer be done. Either one needs to know you to create
>  selinux policies manually, or turn it off altogether. That's less
>  security, not more.
> 
>  I would be particularily interested in comments from RedHat people :)
> 

Adam

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Adam Tkac, Red Hat, Inc.


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