Re: PG84 and SELinux - Mailing list pgsql-general

From James B. Byrne
Subject Re: PG84 and SELinux
Date
Msg-id 60876.70.50.88.137.1291245720.squirrel@webmail.harte-lyne.ca
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In response to Re: PG84 and SELinux  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Wed, December 1, 2010 16:54, Tom Lane wrote:

>> Whatever was the cause of the ssl problem I also encountered a
>> surprising number of SELinux violations.  The following details
>> the
>> SELinux settings that I ultimately had to apply as a local module.
>> This took a considerable period of time as each had to be
>> triggered
>> in turn in order that the error be identified.
>
>> #============= postgresql_t ==============
>> allow postgresql_t var_lib_t:dir rmdir;
>> allow postgresql_t var_lib_t:file { write getattr link read unlink
>> append };
>
>> Is this to be expected?
>
> AFAIK, the Red Hat RPMs work out-of-the-box with SELinux; I'm a bit
> surprised to hear that the PGDG ones don't, because last I heard
> they use the same file layout.  What the above sounds like to me is
> that
> the data directory tree wasn't correctly labeled as postgresql_db_t.
> Maybe a restorecon would have helped?
>
>             regards, tom lane
>

I tried a restorecon as suggested by sealert at the first error.  It
had no effect insofar as I could determine.

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