[ovirt-users] SELinux and oVirt

Michal Skrivanek michal.skrivanek at redhat.com
Wed May 11 13:40:22 UTC 2016


> On 11 May 2016, at 15:24, Cam Mac <iucounu at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Thanks Michal, if reinstalling the engine, (which also had SELinux disabled at install), would the best way be to backup the engine and then restore just the ovirt config?

for engine..well, VM security is not related to that, those are running on hypervisors, not the engine. So for any functionality/security it’s irrelevant what SELinux state it’s in
I’m not sure if relabeling with restorecon is not enough (it sould work also on nodes, but as I said, it’s likely more safe to reinstall just to be really really sure:)
Simone, am I right about the restorecon for engine?

> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Cam
> 
> On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 2:14 PM, Michal Skrivanek <michal.skrivanek at redhat.com <mailto:michal.skrivanek at redhat.com>> wrote:
> 
> > On 11 May 2016, at 15:02, Cam Mac <iucounu at gmail.com <mailto:iucounu at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > In the oVirt guide, it says that "SELinux is being used by default on oVirt Node", but then goes on to say that if you have problems you should set it to permissive mode. I have had a few things fail due to being blocked by SELinux on a node I later enabled SELinux on, as it was off at install time. The other node which has had SELinux on from the start and so far has not had any oVirt operations blocked. I am guessing that the oVirt install process creates the necessary rules to allow vdsm to run under SELinux. So if you want to set SELinux to enforcing after installation, is there a script to do this, or is it better to just reinstall the node or engine, rather than trying to work out the individual exceptions?
> 
> For oVirt node it’s easier to reinstall it, it doesn’t persist much and it’s the easies way how to get the labelling right
> 
> Thanks,
> michal
> 
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Cam
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