Bug 433429

Summary:	genhomedircon creates duplicate entries
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5	Reporter:	Christian Jung <cbolz>
Component:	policycoreutils	Assignee:	Daniel Walsh <dwalsh>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Ben Levenson <benl>
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Version:	5.1	CC:	dwalsh, mkoci, pgraner, syeghiay
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Description Christian Jung 2008-02-19 08:55:35 UTC

Description of problem:
genhomedircon creates entries in
/etc/selinux/targeted/contexts/files/file_contexts.homedirs to setup SELinux
labels for /home, /root,...

If one use has $HOME set to /usr/local/$USER, genhomedircon also add entries for
/usr/local. This is conflicting with existing entries in file_contexts.

Users see warning messages about duplicate entries:
/etc/selinux/targeted/contexts/files/file_contexts: Multiple same specifications
for /usr/local/lost\+found/.*.
/etc/selinux/targeted/contexts/files/file_contexts: Multiple same specifications
for /usr/local/\.journal.
/etc/selinux/targeted/contexts/files/file_contexts: Multiple same specifications
for /usr/local/lost\+found.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
policycoreutils-1.33.12-12.el5

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. create a new user with $HOME in /usr/local:
useradd -d /usr/local/test test
2. execute genhomedircon to update file_contexts.homedirs
genhomedircon
3. login to localhost with ssh:
ssh localhost
(this is only an example, other commands also throw warning messages)

Actual results:
warning messages (see above)

Expected results:
no warning message

Additional info:
genhomedircon should not create entries for directories which are already
included in file_contexts.

Comment 1 Daniel Walsh 2008-02-19 15:32:49 UTC

Too late to put this into U2,  Should be fixed in U3.  For now, don't do that. 
Homedirs should not be in /usr/local.  If you have a service with a homedir in
/usr/local, it should have a shell of /sbin/nologin or /bin/false.  And/or have
a UID < 500.

Comment 2 RHEL Program Management 2008-06-04 22:46:31 UTC

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.

Comment 3 Daniel Walsh 2008-09-17 20:01:34 UTC

Fixed in policycoreutils-1.33.12-14.1.el5

Comment 8 Daniel Walsh 2008-11-04 20:32:16 UTC

Fixed in policycoreutils-1.33.12-14.2.el5

Comment 13 errata-xmlrpc 2009-01-20 22:00:31 UTC

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 therefore 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-2009-0206.html