[Fedora 20] SELinux preventing OpenVpn from working

[kawaiisenpai]

I am in need of some help...

When I try to connect to my VPN in fedora 20 it doesn't work and a SELinux alert pops up.
SELinux is blocking Openvpn from opening a .pem key file stored in my documents that is needed to log into my VPN. I attempted to troubleshoot but the given solutions didnt work. Is there a way to give openvpn permission to open files?

Also here is the log

SELinux is preventing /usr/sbin/openvpn from 'open' accesses on the file /home/r00t/Documents/RiseupCA.pem.

*****  Plugin openvpn (47.5 confidence) suggests   ***************************

If you want to mv RiseupCA.pem to standard location so that openvpn can have open access
Then you must move the cert file to the ~/.cert directory
Do
# mv /home/r00t/Documents/RiseupCA.pem ~/.cert
# restorecon -R -v ~/.cert


*****  Plugin openvpn (47.5 confidence) suggests   ***************************

If you want to modify the label on RiseupCA.pem so that openvpn can have open access on it
Then you must fix the labels.
Do
# semanage fcontext -a -t home_cert_t /home/r00t/Documents/RiseupCA.pem
# restorecon -R -v /home/r00t/Documents/RiseupCA.pem


*****  Plugin catchall (6.38 confidence) suggests   **************************

If you believe that openvpn should be allowed open access on the RiseupCA.pem file by default.
Then you should report this as a bug.
You can generate a local policy module to allow this access.
Do
allow this access for now by executing:
# grep openvpn /var/log/audit/audit.log | audit2allow -M mypol
# semodule -i mypol.pp

Additional Information:
Source Context                system_u:system_r:openvpn_t:s0
Target Context                unconfined_u:object_r:user_home_t:s0
Target Objects                /home/r00t/Documents/RiseupCA.pem [ file ]
Source                        openvpn
Source Path                   /usr/sbin/openvpn
Port                          <Unknown>
Host                          (removed)
Source RPM Packages           openvpn-2.3.2-4.fc20.x86_64
Target RPM Packages           
Policy RPM                    selinux-policy-3.12.1-106.fc20.noarch
Selinux Enabled               True
Policy Type                   targeted
Enforcing Mode                Enforcing
Host Name                     (removed)
Platform                      Linux (removed) 3.12.5-302.fc20.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue
                              Dec 17 20:42:32 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64
Alert Count                   14
First Seen                    2014-01-01 13:46:12 PST
Last Seen                     2014-01-01 18:51:21 PST
Local ID                      6551e965-9c80-4960-9ff9-93bbe50c505a

Raw Audit Messages
type=AVC msg=audit(1388631081.344:517): avc:  denied  { open } for  pid=9115 comm="openvpn" path="/home/r00t/Documents/RiseupCA.pem" dev="dm-3" ino=5768014 scontext=system_u:system_r:openvpn_t:s0 tcontext=unconfined_u:object_r:user_home_t:s0 tclass=file


type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1388631081.344:517): arch=x86_64 syscall=open success=no exit=EACCES a0=7fffe3c77f6a a1=0 a2=1b6 a3=7fffe3c76290 items=0 ppid=9108 pid=9115 auid=4294967295 uid=0 gid=0 euid=0 suid=0 fsuid=0 egid=0 sgid=0 fsgid=0 ses=4294967295 tty=(none) comm=openvpn exe=/usr/sbin/openvpn subj=system_u:system_r:openvpn_t:s0 key=(null)

Hash: openvpn,openvpn_t,user_home_t,file,open

[DBelton]

Have you tried doing as it suggested above?

The best course of action would be the first suggestion above

If you want to mv RiseupCA.pem to standard location so that openvpn can have open access
Then you must move the cert file to the ~/.cert directory
Do
# mv /home/r00t/Documents/RiseupCA.pem ~/.cert
# restorecon -R -v ~/.cert

If you put the .pem file in the folder it suggests, then SELinux will keep the context correct for it without you needing to do anything to SELinux.

I would suggest putting the .pem file in ~/.cert (create the folder if you need to) and then running restorecon on that folder.

[lmm5247]

Have you tried doing as it suggested above?

The best course of action would be the first suggestion above

If you want to mv RiseupCA.pem to standard location so that openvpn can have open access
Then you must move the cert file to the ~/.cert directory
Do
# mv /home/r00t/Documents/RiseupCA.pem ~/.cert
# restorecon -R -v ~/.cert

If you put the .pem file in the folder it suggests, then SELinux will keep the context correct for it without you needing to do anything to SELinux.

I would suggest putting the .pem file in ~/.cert (create the folder if you need to) and then running restorecon on that folder.

Agreed. I was trying to setup PrivateInternetAccess and encountered this same issue.