[DOCS-5665] Finesse the configure SELinux in Production Notes Created: 18/Jun/15  Updated: 19/Dec/18  Resolved: 02/May/16

Status: Closed
Project: Documentation
Component/s: None
Affects Version/s: None
Fix Version/s: None

Type: Improvement Priority: Major - P3
Reporter: Kay Kim (Inactive) Assignee: Allison Reinheimer Moore
Resolution: Done Votes: 0
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Issue Links:
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related to DOCS-3952 Disable MACs (SELinux, etc) Closed
related to DOCS-5622 Add SELinux Warning to Production Notes Closed
is related to DOCS-4170 RHEL 7.0 with default SELinux policie... Closed
is related to DOCS-5782 V8 operations generate segfaults when... Closed
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Days since reply: 7 years, 41 weeks, 1 day ago
Epic Link: Clean Up ProdNotes

 Description   

Per Kevin Pulo

I get queasy telling people that they must lower their security, since it's
usually something they have to evaluate for themselves, and often involves
corporate policy, their skill level, etc. So I would suggest a soft
recommendation, eg. "Problems have been reported when using MongoDB with SELinux
enabled, so to avoid this our general recommendation is to disable SELinux where
possible."



 Comments   
Comment by Githook User [ 03/May/16 ]

Author:

{u'username': u'schmalliso', u'name': u'Allison Moore', u'email': u'allison.moore@10gen.com'}

Message: DOCS-5665, DOCS-5782, DOCS-6898, DOCS-7445: platform-specific considerations

  • clarify SELinux recommendation
  • server-side JS does not work on SELinux
  • recommend premium storage for Microsoft Azure
  • generally tidy up the language and flow of the prodnotes' platform-specific
    considerations

Signed-off-by: kay <kay.kim@10gen.com>
Branch: master
https://github.com/mongodb/docs/commit/7a8ee58692ff6042c69ceffae3cc532b794fa1de

Comment by Dmitry Ryabtsev [ 04/Sep/15 ]

Can we also adjust the following line?

You must configure SELinux to allow MongoDB to start on Red Hat Linux-based systems (Red Hat Enterprise Linux or CentOS Linux).

Currently it can be interpreted as "SELinux has to be enabled in order to be able to run MongoDB Enterprise on RHEL". We should make it clear SELinux is not a prerequisite and it is okay to have it disabled on RHEL, however if it is enabled, it has to be configured properly otherwise MongoDB Enterprise may fail to run.

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