Bug 626680

Summary: Installing the netdisco package causes incorrect SELinux labeling on /usr/share & /usr/share/*
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Jeff Raber <jeff.raber>
Component: netdiscoAssignee: Walter Gould <walt>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Jeff Raber 2010-08-24 05:36:11 UTC
Description of problem:
The netdisco package creates the user 'netdisco' with uid > 500, login shell = /bin/bash and homedir=/usr/share/netdisco.  Unfortunately, that combination of attributes causes SELinux to detect /usr/share/netdisco as a USER_HOME_DIR and /usr/share as a 'HOME_ROOT'.  The result is that /usr/share gets labeled as system_u:object_r:home_root_t:s0 and all subdirs (/usr/share/*) are labeled as unconfined_u:object_r:user_home_dir_t:s0.  This causes many thousands of AVC denials and a generally unusable system if running with SELinux enabled.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
1.0-2.fc13

How reproducible:
I haven't tried, but it should be 100% reproducible.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install F13 with SELinux enabled.
2. Install netdisco.
3. 'touch ./autorelabel && reboot' (OR wait until some other process kicks off a relabel (ex. an update to selinux-policy* package)
  
Actual results:
Some services fail to start on boot.  System is VERY slow.  Thousands of AVC's logged.  'audispd: queue is full - dropping event' messages in /var/log/message.  /usr/share is now labeled as system_u:object_r:home_root_t:s0 and the subdirs are labeled as unconfined_u:object_r:user_home_dir_t:s0.  Panic ensues.

Expected results:
/usr/share labeling should not be affected by the installation of netdisco.  Ponies.

Additional info:
To solve this problem on my machine, I simply changed the logon shell in /etc/passwd for netdisco to /sbin/nologin.  Another option would have been to change the UID of that user to a value less than 500.  I then ran 'semodule -B' then 'restorecon -v -R /usr/share' which resulted in the correct labeling being applied to /usr/share and its subdirs.  (Later I performed a complete relabel just to be sure that SELinux was happy)

Comment 1 Jeff Raber 2010-08-24 05:38:34 UTC
This bug is similar to 586271.

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Comment 3 Bug Zapper 2011-06-28 14:06:58 UTC
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