Access to kerberized NFS is denied when SELinux is enabled

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Satellite 5 database-backup using db-control is not possible if destination is NFS and SELinux is enabled.
  • After enabling SELinux on the host, we are no longer able to backup our Satellite database to NFS.
  • Unable to access a kerberized NFS-share after a process changed its personality with seteuid().

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (RHEL 5)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (RHEL 6)
  • kerberized NFS
  • SELinux enabled

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