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Bug 1038877

Summary: SELinux is preventing /usr/bin/python2.7 from 'write' accesses on the directory /var/log.
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Reporter: Eric Blake <eblake>
Component: selinux-policyAssignee: Miroslav Grepl <mgrepl>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Milos Malik <mmalik>
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Priority: unspecified    
Version: 7.0CC: mmalik
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Description Eric Blake 2013-12-06 02:21:19 UTC
Description of problem:
SELinux is preventing /usr/bin/python2.7 from 'write' accesses on the directory /var/log.

*****  Plugin catchall (100. confidence) suggests   **************************

If you believe that python2.7 should be allowed write access on the log directory 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 python /var/log/audit/audit.log | audit2allow -M mypol
# semodule -i mypol.pp

Additional Information:
Source Context                system_u:system_r:sosreport_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023
Target Context                system_u:object_r:var_log_t:s0
Target Objects                /var/log [ dir ]
Source                        python
Source Path                   /usr/bin/python2.7
Port                          <Unknown>
Host                          (removed)
Source RPM Packages           python-2.7.5-10.el7.x86_64
Target RPM Packages           filesystem-3.2-14.el7.x86_64
Policy RPM                    selinux-policy-3.12.1-105.el7.noarch
Selinux Enabled               True
Policy Type                   targeted
Enforcing Mode                Enforcing
Host Name                     (removed)
Platform                      Linux (removed) 3.10.0-54.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu
                              Nov 21 15:34:15 EST 2013 x86_64 x86_64
Alert Count                   1
First Seen                    2013-12-02 08:35:42 MST
Last Seen                     2013-12-02 08:35:42 MST
Local ID                      442e9db9-eb4f-4bfb-8be9-99508c329af2

Raw Audit Messages
type=AVC msg=audit(1385998542.835:17601): avc:  denied  { write } for  pid=28477 comm="python" name="log" dev="dm-2" ino=2359330 scontext=system_u:system_r:sosreport_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 tcontext=system_u:object_r:var_log_t:s0 tclass=dir


type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1385998542.835:17601): arch=x86_64 syscall=open success=no exit=EACCES a0=39e8750 a1=441 a2=1b6 a3=39eaa30 items=0 ppid=28476 pid=28477 auid=4294967295 uid=0 gid=0 euid=0 suid=0 fsuid=0 egid=0 sgid=0 fsgid=0 tty=(none) ses=4294967295 comm=python exe=/usr/bin/python2.7 subj=system_u:system_r:sosreport_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 key=(null)

Hash: python,sosreport_t,var_log_t,dir,write

Additional info:
reporter:       libreport-2.1.7
hashmarkername: setroubleshoot
kernel:         3.10.0-54.el7.x86_64
type:           libreport

Comment 2 Milos Malik 2013-12-06 08:32:45 UTC
I believe this bug is a duplicate of bz#1032629.

Comment 3 Miroslav Grepl 2013-12-06 08:55:55 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1032629 ***