Failed disabling Core Dumps on RHEL - SELinux Updates

Alan DeKok aland at deployingradius.com
Wed Jun 30 16:51:26 CEST 2010


Ben Wiechman wrote:
> A note for those that may run into this as well.
> 
> When updating FR to 2.1.9 on RHEL/CentOS with SELinux enabled FreeRADIUS
> would log the following when it was started:
> Wed Jun  2 16:19:57 2010 : Error: Failed disabling core dumps: Permission
> denied
> 
> To resolve I had to install the following modifications to the default
> SELinux policy
...
> This allowed the daemon to properly disable core dumps. 

  Hmm.... security policies that prevent systems from increasing the
security of the system.  Nice.

  Alan DeKok.



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