Re: nscd with selinux with ssl

Daniel J Walsh wrote:
> Farkas Levente wrote:
>
> > Daniel J Walsh wrote:
> >
> > > Farkas Levente wrote:
> > >
> > > > hi,
> > > > i try to use nscd with ldap and tls. in this case you should define 
> > > > a cacert, cert and key file for nss. but afaik there is no default 
> > > > palce to put these file and there is no default policy to allow nscd 
> > > > to read any kind of pem file(s). it'd be useful to define a standard 
> > > > place for these cert files and allow nscd to read these files.
> > > > yours.
> > > /usr/share/ssl/certs??
> > >
> > > Although I still think this stuff belongs in /etc but I don't make 
> > > the rules.
> >
> > the first thing i always do aftera fresh install:
> > ----------------------------
> > mv /usr/share/ssl /etc
> > cd /usr/share
> > ln -s /etc/ssl
> > ----------------------------
> > :-) so i definitely agree with you. i don't know make this rule, but 
> > it'd be _very_ useful to convince him, that config files should have 
> > to be under somewhere /etc/ (but that's another story).
> > and my current pem files are under /etc/ssl/,
> > ----------------------------
> > # ls -aZ /etc/ssl/certs/cacert.pem
> > -rw-r--r--  root     root     root:object_r:usr_t 
> > /etc/ssl/certs/cacert.pem
> > ----------------------------
> > and in my messages:
> > ----------------------------
> > Mar 31 17:08:23 kek kernel: audit(1112281703.777:0): avc:  denied  { 
> > read } for  pid=14271 exe=/usr/sbin/nscd name=cacert.pem dev=md0 
> > ino=2291612 scontext=root:system_r:nscd_t tcontext=root:object_r:usr_t 
> > tclass=file
> > ----------------------------
> > that's why i ask for it:-)
> > yours.
> I believe FC3 policy selinux-policy-targeted-1.17.30-2.90,  has nscd.te 
> allow to read usr_t
> Rawhide has added a type of cert_t, so you could execute
>
> chcon -t cert_t /etc/ssl/certs/cacert.pem
the truth is that this is a rhel 4 (but there is not redhat-selinux 
list:-) and afaik on it the latest update is 
selinux-policy-targeted-1.17.30-2.52.1 so i rather wait for a official 
update (from you:-) and not run nscd until this happend...
thanks anyway.

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