From: domg472@gmail.com (Dominick Grift)
Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2011 20:35:58 +0100
Subject: [refpolicy] Unexpected user_u permission denied for
 httpd_user_content_t
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On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 06:04:13PM +0100, Simon Peter Nicholls wrote:
> Is it known behaviour that user_u logins get locked out of their own web 
> content?
> 
> If I login as a regular default login, I get user_u:
> 
> $ id -Z
> user_u:user_r:user_t
> 
> I now want to start working up some web content, so I create the regular 
> top level folder:
> 
> $ mkdir public_html
> 
> And see in the message log that restorecond has relabelled it for me. 
> httpd_enable_homedirs is on:
> 
> restorecond: Reset file context /home/user/public_html: 
> user_u:object_r:user_home_t->user_u:object_r:httpd_user_content_t
> 
> So far so good. I'll enter that directory so I can work up some HTML:
> 
> $ cd public_html
> -bash: cd: public_html: Permission denied
> 
> Oops. I can't even list the attributes of the directory without having 
> sysadm_r for example.
> 
> So at this point my user is already locked out of their own content, 
> which doesn't feel right to me. Policy implementation aside, the access 
> granted to Apache for using these files should be in addition to 
> established permissions, not instead of.
> 
> Is this a known "rough edge" with refpolicy, or is this expected to work?
> 
> It's important for my situation, thinking ahead to distributed web 
> deployment, that particular logins via SSH have management access to web 
> content by default, without the need to switch roles to do so.

Whoops my previoussly reply assumed you were using a redhat distro instead of plain refpolicy.

So you will probably have to create a loadable module with the apache_role() called, preferable for guest_t/guest_r.


> 
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