Bug 239460
| Summary: | upgrading selinux overwrites contexts/users/root | ||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | Reporter: | Ronan Waide <waider> |
| Component: | selinux-policy | Assignee: | Daniel Walsh <dwalsh> |
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 5.0 | CC: | dwalsh |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | RHBA-2007-0544 | Doc Type: | Bug Fix |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2007-11-07 16:39:38 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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I have fixed this in all future updates to config/noreplace selinux-policy-2.4.6-69 and beyond will have this fix. This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux maintenance release. Product Management has requested further review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for potential inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Update release for currently deployed products. This request is not yet committed for inclusion in an Update release. An advisory has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on the solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2007-0544.html |
Description of problem: I run a modified contexts/users/root which allows root to log in as sysadm_r. Every selinux policy upgrade overwrites this file unconditionally, occasionally resulting in me losing root access to the box when I forget to re-edit the file. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): all version/release numbers for RHEL5, up to and including the current u1-prerelease on dwalsh's people.redhat.com page. Latest version installed is selinux-policy-strict-2.4.6-67 How reproducible: 100% reproducible Steps to Reproduce: 1. edit /etc/selinux/{policy}/contexts/users/root 2. upgrade selinux-policy-{policy} 3. check root file Actual results: changes are overwritten by upgrade. file is not even saved as '.rpmsave' Expected results: file should be flagged as a config file and either left untouched or moved to .rpmsave