Bug 1790452
| Summary: | Installation of pcp-pmda-samba causes SELinux issues | ||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 | Reporter: | Jan Kurik <jkurik> |
| Component: | pcp | Assignee: | Nathan Scott <nathans> |
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | Jan Kurik <jkurik> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 8.2 | CC: | agerstmayr, jkurik, mgoodwin, nathans, patrickm |
| Target Milestone: | rc | Keywords: | Bugfix, Reopened, Triaged |
| Target Release: | 8.0 | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | pcp-5.1.1-3 | Doc Type: | No Doc Update |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2020-11-04 03:00:37 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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This will be resolved by rebase to pcp-5.1.x *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1792971 *** This issue still persist in pcp-5.1.1-2.el8 build. Verified on pcp-selinux-5.1.1-3.el8 Since the problem described in this bug report should be resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For information on the advisory (pcp bug fix and enhancement update), and where to find the updated files, follow the link below. If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report. https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2020:4684 |
Description of problem: Installation of pcp-pmda-samba PMDA on a fresh RHEL-8.2 system triggers SELinux issues. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): * pcp-pmda-samba-5.0.2-2.el8 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.On a fresh RHEL-8.2 system install pcp-pmda-samba # yum install -y pcp-pmda-samba 2. Run an installation script of the PMDA # cd /var/lib/pcp/pmdas/samba/ && ./Install 3. Check SELinux reports using ausearch or audit2allow tools # ausearch -m AVC,USER_AVC # audit2allow -a Actual results: SELinux issues reported: type=AVC msg=audit(1578497637.418:784): avc: denied { write } for pid=19494 comm=smbstatus name=msg.lock dev=vda1 ino=6348450 scontext=system_u:system_r:pcp_pmcd_t:s0 tcontext=unconfined_u:object_r:samba_var_t:s0 tclass=dir permissive=0 #============= pcp_pmcd_t ============== allow pcp_pmcd_t samba_var_t:dir write; Expected results: The installation and run of the PMDA does not produce any SELinux issues.