Re: PG 8.1.1 rhel-as-4 rpms missing - Now not initdb issues

From: Bruno Wolff III <bruno(at)wolff(dot)to>
To: Devrim GUNDUZ <devrim(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Chris Hoover <revoohc(at)gmail(dot)com>, "pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: PG 8.1.1 rhel-as-4 rpms missing - Now not initdb issues
Date: 2005-12-14 18:55:42
Message-ID: 20051214185542.GA29100@wolff.to
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On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 17:54:53 +0200,
Devrim GUNDUZ <devrim(at)commandprompt(dot)com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, 2005-12-14 at 10:42 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> > > Hmm. Two questions:
> > > - Is SELinux enabled?
> >
> > I think that's the only question you need ;-). And the answer is
> > probably "get a newer version of selinux-policy". Disallowing the
> > postgres executable from writing on /dev/tty was one of the earlier
> > policy mistakes ...
>
> I'm pleased to always disable SELinux :) . I remember to have an
> OpenWebmail problem months ago that drove me crazy, and at last I found
> that it was a SELinux problem.

I like the targetted selinux as that gives you a bit more protection from
unknown (to you) vulnerabilities in services.

Right now the mandatory access is too much of a pain (for me at least) to
use.

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