And an error that arose in the past hour which I just figured out
needed this access:

    allow httpd_t puppet_var_lib_t:file append;

G'night,
    Dave
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On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 01:30, David Chin <chi...@wfu.edu> wrote:
> Some details on how I fixed it. There were also lots of mod_passenger
> SELinux issues that were fixed, too. I didn't pick out the specific
> subset of issues that only fixed Puppet.
>
> Credit due to: http://skippy.net/puppet-subversion-selinux
>
>    # setsebool -P allow_ypbind 1
>    # ausearch -m avc | audit2allow -r > puppet_passenger.te
>    # mkdir -p /usr/share/selinux/packages/puppet_passenger
>    # mv puppet_passenger.te /usr/share/selinux/packages/puppet_passenger
>    # cd /usr/share/selinux/packages/puppet_passenger
>    # checkmodule -M -m -o puppet_passenger.mod puppet_passenger.te
>    checkmodule:  loading policy configuration from puppet_passenger.te
>    checkmodule:  policy configuration loaded
>    checkmodule:  writing binary representation (version 10) to
> puppet_passenger.mod
>    # semodule_package -o puppet_passenger.pp -m puppet_passenger.mod
>    # semodule -i puppet_passenger.pp
>
> The specific issues that arose from httpd_t's need for access to
> puppet stuff were:
>
>    allow httpd_t puppet_var_lib_t:dir { write read create add_name };
>    allow httpd_t puppet_var_lib_t:file { relabelfrom relabelto create write };
>
> Hope that helps,
>    Dave
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> David Chin, Ph.D.
> chi...@wfu.edu                  High Performance Computing Systems Analyst
> Office: +1.336.758.2964         Wake Forest University
> Mobile: +1.336.608.0793         Winston-Salem, NC
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>
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 11:31, David Chin <chi...@wfu.edu> wrote:
>> Turns out to be SELinux: httpd_t needs file write to puppet_var_lib_t.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>    Dave
>> --
>> David Chin, Ph.D.
>> chi...@wfu.edu                  High Performance Computing Systems Analyst
>> Office: +1.336.758.2964         Wake Forest University
>> Mobile: +1.336.608.0793         Winston-Salem, NC
>> Email-to-txt: 3366080...@mms.att.net           Google Talk: chi...@wfu.edu
>> Web: http://www.wfu.edu/~chindw
>>      https://plus.google.com/108169173177119739731/about
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 17:04, David Chin <chi...@wfu.edu> wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I'm new to puppet, and am working through the Pro Puppet book
>>> (Turnbull & McCune). After a bit of struggling, I managed to get
>>> puppet + passenger + apache mostly working: a simple connect to the
>>> server on https port 8140 gives "The environment must be purely
>>> alphanumeric, not ''"
>>>
>>> Here is what I have running:
>>> - RedHat Enterprise Linux 6
>>> - httpd 2.2.15-15.el6
>>> - puppet 2.7.9-1.el6
>>> - puppet-server 2.7.9-1.el6
>>> - mod_passenger 3.0.11-1.el6
>>> - rubygem-rack 1.1.0-2.el6
>>> - facter 1.6.4-1.el6
>>>
>>> I'm sanitizing data here by using "puppet.example.com" as the server
>>> name.
>>>
>>> My /etc/puppet/puppet.conf has:
>>>    [main]
>>>    server = puppet.example.com
>>>
>>> On the puppet server, I am trying to test by doing: puppet agent --
>>> verbose --debug --test
>>>
>>> I get the error message:
>>>
>>>    err: Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: Error 400 on
>>> SERVER: Permission denied - /var/lib/puppet/yaml/facts/
>>> puppet.example.com.yaml
>>>    warning: Not using cache on failed catalog
>>>    err: Could not retrieve catalog; skipping run
>>>
>>> Permissions on /var/lib/puppet/yaml/facts:
>>>
>>>    drwxr-x---. puppet puppet
>>> unconfined_u:object_r:puppet_var_lib_t:s0 /var/lib/puppet/yaml/facts/
>>>
>>> I manually created the .yaml file by doing: facter -y > ${factsdir}/$
>>> (facter fqdn).yaml
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance for any pointers.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> -- David Chin

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