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Re: Apache subversion unable to open another ext4 partion svn repository

From: Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2017 22:37:55 -0500

On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 5:02 PM, Doug Robinson <doug.robinson_at_wandisco.com>
wrote:

> Nico: Please state references to these bugs. I have not heard anything
> about them.
>

There have been multiple. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=692573
shows up in a fast Google search: that was admittedly from 2011. I'll also
acknowledge that it's gotten better. A fast search used to show a lot more
reports of poor behavior with SELinux entirely disabled.

> Setting it to "permissive" is fine if you are going to actually use
> "audit2allow" to set a policy and then turn things back on. Otherwise it
> is slower and accumulating data unnecessarily.
>

In my experience, it's not noticeably slower than running SELinux at all.
And "permissive" can be a very useful tool to guide where and how, you
arrange Subversion server components for consistentcy with the already
activated web server SELinux policies. It's also helpful to point out where
your models of web configuration may be a little...... odd, and themselves
a source of error.

On Tue, Nov 7, 2017 at 6:55 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 7, 2017 at 8:16 AM, Doug Robinson <doug.robinson_at_wandisco.com
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> Kushal:
>>>
>>> Just as a slight possibility, you might check to see that the SELinux
>>> stuff is turned off (use the "sestatus" command). If it's not disabled/off
>>> then you're going to have to allow the http account to access that data by
>>> setting the appropriate security context throughout all directories from
>>> the root ('/') down to where the SVN data is stored in that 2nd EXT4
>>> partition - and then the entire SVN data tree.
>>>
>>
>> Do *not* disable SELinux while debugging it. Set it to "permissive".
>>
>> There have been a serious of nasty bugs when switching from "enabled" to
>> "disabled", the likes of which get senior sysadmins paid good money to say
>> that sort of things.
>>
>>
>>
>>> Cheers.
>>>
>>> Doug
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>
>
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