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Title
ERROR: Missing /usr/share/selinux/devel/Makefile, please install the selinux policy package. -
Description
The following error may be reported when configuring support for SELinux for Privilege Manager for Unix
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* Checking connection to policy server host server.example.com [ OK]
- ERROR: Missing /usr/share/selinux/devel/Makefile, please install the selinux policy package.
*** Starting pmloadcheck [ OK]
- ERROR: Configuration of qpm4u unsuccessful.
- ERROR: Installation log file is /opt/quest/qpm4u/install/pmjoin_output_20211202.log+++++++++++++++++
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Cause
The development tools which are necessary to install the SELinux module are not installed on the Unix host. -
Resolution
On CentOS 7 / RHEL 7 & above run the following command which will install necessary packages to allow installation of the SELinux module.
# yum install selinux-policy-devel
Or
# dnf install selinux-policy-devel
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From the man pages for both pmsrvconfig & pmjoin
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-S | --selinux Enable support for SELinux in Privilege Manager.
An SELinux policy module will be installed, which allows the pmlocal daemon to set the security context to that of the run user when executing commands. This requires that the policycoreutils package and either the selinux-policy-devel (RHEL7 and above) or selinux-policy
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