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PostPosted: Sat May 07, 2016 3:47 pm    Post subject: SELinux: /var/run symlink issue Reply with quote

Hi,
I have issues with incorrectly labeled files and directories in /var/run. Take /var/run/udev for example:
Code:
ls -dZ /var/run/udev/
system_u:object_r:tmpfs_t /var/run/udev/

even though it is supposed to be system_u:object_r:udev_var_run_t and correct file context rules are installed:
Code:
semanage fcontext -l | grep /var/run/udev
/var/run/udev(/.*)?                                all files          system_u:object_r:udev_var_run_t
/var/run/udev-configure-printer(/.*)?              all files          system_u:object_r:cupsd_config_var_run_t
/var/run/udev/data(/.*)?                           all files          system_u:object_r:udev_tbl_t
/var/run/udev/rules\.d(/.*)?                       all files          system_u:object_r:udev_rules_t

I suspect that this is because /var/run is a symlink to /run. I had found some mention about it here, but that post is fairly old. Does anybody know how to solve this problem? Thanks
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PostPosted: Sat May 07, 2016 9:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hmm, restorecon -r /var/run fixed it, does anybody knows why running rlpkg didn't worked?

EDIT:

Bit of an update, hope it will help somebody:
rlpkg doesn't work because it deals with package owned files, while /var/run/* is runtime created. For the same reason restorecon -r /var/run doesn't persist reboot. Problem is caused by context of process that creates /var/run/udev which is not initrc_t (/etc/init.d/udev) but probably /lib64/rc/bin/checkpath. When I delete /var/run/udev at runtime and issue /etc/init.d/udev restart, /var/run/udev gets created with proper context. This was discussed, again, in the past.
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