Bug 122624

Summary: selinux doesn't understand sudo with respect to yum
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Tom Wood <woodt>
Component: yumAssignee: Jeff Johnson <jbj>
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Full transcript of "sudo yum -y update" none

Description Tom Wood 2004-05-06 13:01:20 UTC 
Description of problem: selinux doesn't understand sudo


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
policy-1.11.2-21



How reproducible: Every time


Steps to Reproduce:
1. sudo yum -y update
2. Watch for selinux-related warnings/errors
3.
  
Actual results:
selinux warnings/errors


Expected results: Works.


Additional info:

Not sure where to file this, as it's a combo of sudo, yum, and
selinux.  I guessed policy.
Comment 1 Tom Wood 2004-05-06 13:03:24 UTC 
Created attachment 100042 [details]
Full transcript of "sudo yum -y update"

Note:  I hit <ctrl>-c toward the end of this run, hence some of the latter
issues.
Comment 2 Jeff Johnson 2004-05-07 21:06:35 UTC 
yum needs to be run from the role "sysadm_r".

sudo su -
yum update

is one way to achieve the sysadm_r role. There is
sudo -r sysadm_r yum update iirc, check the man page.
Comment 3 Jeff Johnson 2004-05-07 21:07:48 UTC 
*** Bug 122620 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***