On 07/10/2009 06:09 PM, Andras Simon wrote: > Sometimes I see the warning: > > SELinux is preventing the sendmail from using potentially mislabeled files > (/root). > > sendmail is not installed, but according to sealert, this warning is > really about ssmtp. > Of course I'm not trying to mail any file from /root, in fact, I don't > mail anything. Any idea what might be going on? > > Andras > What is the AVC. It might be just doing a getattr of /root which could trigger an AVC.
When an app starts with it's homedir set to /root, it will getattr on the $HOME, which can cause this AVC. Usually these are dontaudited. So I would need to see the AVC to understand what it is complaining about. grep avc /var/log/audit/audit.log -- fedora-list mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
