Bug 1392443

Summary: systemctl returning Access denied for a non-existant service due to SELinux restrictions
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Reporter: Nenad Peric <nperic>
Component: selinux-policyAssignee: Lukas Vrabec <lvrabec>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: BaseOS QE Security Team <qe-baseos-security>
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Version: 7.3CC: lvrabec, mgrepl, mmalik, plautrba, pvrabec, ssekidde
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Description Nenad Peric 2016-11-07 14:11:10 UTC 
Description of problem:

When trying to enable a service through systemd, which actually does not exist, systemctl will return Access Denied instead of a more useful No such file or directory.

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

selinux-policy-3.13.1-102.el7_3.4.noarch
systemd-219-30.el7_3.3.x86_64

How reproducible:
Everytime


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Try to enable a non-existant service
2. systemctl returns Access denied
3.

Actual results:

[root@galaxy ~]# systemctl enable foobar
Failed to execute operation: Access denied

[root@galaxy ~]# setenforce 0

[root@galaxy ~]# systemctl enable foobar
Failed to execute operation: No such file or directory 



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Additional info:
Comment 1 Milos Malik 2016-11-07 14:19:11 UTC 
The problem is already known:

* https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1337041#c6
Comment 4 Lukas Vrabec 2016-11-14 14:10:47 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1337041 ***