Bug 1586352

What uservare you trying to run certbot as?

To provide some context for my question, certbot normally expects to run as root. Furthermore, httpd normally won't be invoking certbot, so this shouldn't be a problem. What are you doing that causes this to happen?

(In reply to Eli Young from comment #1)
> What uservare you trying to run certbot as?

root ,  sorry for the delay

to be clear I run as root : 
certbot --apache 

I have httpd running with a super simple configuration 
/etc/httpd/conf.d/site.conf 

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName site.name.country
    ErrorLog logs/site.name.country-error_log
    CustomLog logs/site.name.country-access_log common
</VirtualHost>

Could you post the syslog and audit messages you’re seeing that illustrate the error?

Created attachment 1448593 [details]
var_log_messages.txt

cat /var/log/messages | grep SELinux > var_log_messages.txt

Created attachment 1448594 [details]
ausearch.txt

ausearch -x /usr/sbin/httpd --raw > ausearch.txt

is enough ?

more info 

found 5 alerts in /var/log/audit/audit.log
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SELinux is preventing /usr/sbin/httpd from write access on the file /etc/letsencrypt/.certbot.lock.

*****  Plugin leaks (86.2 confidence) suggests   *****************************

If you want to ignore httpd trying to write access the .certbot.lock file, because you believe it should not need this access.
Then you should report this as a bug.  
You can generate a local policy module to dontaudit this access.
Do
# ausearch -x /usr/sbin/httpd --raw | audit2allow -D -M my-httpd
# semodule -i my-httpd.pp

*****  Plugin catchall (14.7 confidence) suggests   **************************

If you believe that httpd should be allowed write access on the .certbot.lock 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:
# ausearch -c 'httpd' --raw | audit2allow -M my-httpd
# semodule -i my-httpd.pp


Additional Information:
Source Context                unconfined_u:system_r:httpd_t:s0
Target Context                unconfined_u:object_r:etc_t:s0
Target Objects                /etc/letsencrypt/.certbot.lock [ file ]
Source                        httpd
Source Path                   /usr/sbin/httpd
Port                          <Unknown>
Host                          <Unknown>
Source RPM Packages           httpd-2.4.6-80.el7.centos.1.x86_64
Target RPM Packages           
Policy RPM                    selinux-policy-3.13.1-192.el7_5.4.noarch
Selinux Enabled               True
Policy Type                   targeted
Enforcing Mode                Enforcing
Host Name                     xxxx
Platform                      Linux xxxx 3.10.0-862.3.2.el7.x86_64
                              #1 SMP Mon May 21 23:36:36 UTC 2018 x86_64 x86_64
Alert Count                   20
First Seen                    2018-04-27 17:19:26 WEST
Last Seen                     2018-07-27 12:47:43 WEST
Local ID                      0c2ad820-6b7b-4ba9-a422-7a59ac577708

Raw Audit Messages
type=AVC msg=audit(1532692063.265:5968): avc:  denied  { write } for  pid=3915 comm="httpd" path="/etc/letsencrypt/.certbot.lock" dev="dm-0" ino=583456 scontext=unconfined_u:system_r:httpd_t:s0 tcontext=unconfined_u:object_r:etc_t:s0 tclass=file


type=AVC msg=audit(1532692063.265:5968): avc:  denied  { write } for  pid=3915 comm="httpd" path="/var/log/letsencrypt/.certbot.lock" dev="dm-0" ino=25547078 scontext=unconfined_u:system_r:httpd_t:s0 tcontext=unconfined_u:object_r:var_log_t:s0 tclass=file


type=AVC msg=audit(1532692063.265:5968): avc:  denied  { write } for  pid=3915 comm="httpd" path="/var/lib/letsencrypt/.certbot.lock" dev="dm-0" ino=8528454 scontext=unconfined_u:system_r:httpd_t:s0 tcontext=unconfined_u:object_r:cert_t:s0 tclass=file


type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1532692063.265:5968): arch=x86_64 syscall=execve success=yes exit=0 a0=16eb330 a1=16e6cb0 a2=16e7f90 a3=7fff91aff700 items=0 ppid=3913 pid=3915 auid=0 uid=0 gid=0 euid=0 suid=0 fsuid=0 egid=0 sgid=0 fsgid=0 tty=(none) ses=585 comm=httpd exe=/usr/sbin/httpd subj=unconfined_u:system_r:httpd_t:s0 key=(null)

Hash: httpd,httpd_t,etc_t,file,write

*** Bug 1729813 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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Reassigning to the new maintainer of this component.

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