Bug 75748 – (selinux) libselinux incorect file paths

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED UPSTREAM

[Description Jared Thomas 2004-12-26 20:51:04 UTC]

libselnux generates the paths for selinux security related tools such as seuser and seinfo from unsupported policy paths ( i.e.  the paths used in redhat et al not the paths in gentoo base policy)  issue any of the commands below in "steps to reproduce" and they always produce a error related to the path as shown in the attached strace log

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.seuser
2.seinfo
3.selinuxconfig


Actual Results:  
errors out or gives paths to non-existant files

Expected Results:  
produce no errors or give the correct path.

[Comment 1 Jared Thomas 2004-12-26 21:47:33 UTC]

Created attachment 46936 [details]
seinfo strace log

[Comment 2 Jared Thomas 2004-12-26 21:48:18 UTC]

Created attachment 46937 [details]
selinuxconfig strace log

[Comment 3 Jared Thomas 2004-12-26 21:48:36 UTC]

Created attachment 46938 [details]
seuser strace log

[Comment 4 Jared Thomas 2004-12-26 21:50:16 UTC]

Created attachment 46939 [details, diff]
Proposed patch to libselinux

applies to libselinux-1.18

[Comment 5 Chris PeBenito (RETIRED) 2004-12-27 11:30:58 UTC]

If you have a /etc/selinux directory or symlink that points to a directory, libselinux will use the new /etc/selinux directory scheme.  Otherwise it will use /etc/security/selinux.  You need to remove /etc/selinux.

[Comment 6 Jared Thomas 2004-12-27 19:02:52 UTC]

there is no file symlink or directory iat "/etc/selinux" redhat uses that scheme and libselinux has been designed to work with they're strict or targeted policy. the original style was /etc/security and libselinux appends "/etc/security" with "/selinux" dependant on what libselinux call is being made. can you please reverify.

[Comment 7 Chris PeBenito (RETIRED) 2005-01-23 18:23:48 UTC]

This is a problem with setools that should hopfully be fixed in the next release