On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 5:17 PM, sguazt <marco.guazzone(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 4:58 PM, Arthur Dent
<misc.lists(a)blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-06-03 at 16:25 +0200, sguazt wrote:
>> On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 3:49 PM, Arthur Dent <misc.lists(a)blueyonder.co.uk>
wrote:
>> > On Fri, 2011-06-03 at 09:08 -0400, Mike Williams wrote:
>> >> On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 4:05 AM, sguazt <marco.guazzone(a)gmail.com>
>> >> wrote:
>> >> On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 3:30 PM, sguazt
>> >> <marco.guazzone(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Hi,
>> >> Still have problems. Under /var/log/messages I've this
>> >> message:
>> >>
>> >> fail2ban.comm : WARNING Invalid command: ['add',
>> >> 'ssh-iptables', 'auto']
>> >>
>> >> Don't know if it is related to my problem.
>> >>
>> >> Anyway, I am the only one that has this problem (or that runs
>> >> fail2ban ;) )?
>> >
>> > Yes I had this exact problem.
>> >
>> > It's an SELinux problem. Put SELinux into permissive mode
>> > # setenforce 0
>> > and then restart F2B. It should start up, but you'll get a bunch of SEL
>> > AVCs. From these you can build a policy and turn SEL back to Enforcing.
>> >
>> > F2B and SEL have always caused me problems. With the help of the selinux
>> > mailing list I once tried to get to the bottom of it. Now I just give up
>> > and create a policy allowing everything that audit2allow says it
>> > needs...
>> >
>>
>> Mike and Arthur, thank you for your feedback.
>>
>> Under F14, if I'm not wrong, SEL did not cause problems to fail2ban.
>>
>> Arthur, I don't know how to create such a policy. Could you tell me how?
>
> I don't know if this is the best way, but this is how I do it:
>
> I'm assuming you have the SELinux troubleshooting tools installed (I
> think they are installed by default - do you get SELinux alerts?)
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>
>
> Hope that helps
>
Thank you so much!!
I'll give it a try later.
For those interested, there are two bug reports on bugzilla:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=669966
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697223
Regards,
-- Marco