Bug 713417

Summary:	/root is labelled system_u:object_r:default_t:s0 after switching to MLS
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5	Reporter:	Milos Malik <mmalik>
Component:	doc-Deployment_Guide	Assignee:	Martin Prpič <mprpic>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	ecs-bugs
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Version:	5.7	CC:	dwalsh
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Description Milos Malik 2011-06-15 11:21:22 UTC

Description of problem:

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
selinux-policy-2.4.6-311.el5
selinux-policy-targeted-2.4.6-311.el5
selinux-policy-mls-2.4.6-311.el5

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. get a fresh RHEL-5.7 machine with targeted policy installed
2. log in via console as root
3. yum -y install selinux-policy\* policycoreutils\*
4. replace "SELINUXTYPE=targeted" with "SELINUXTYPE=mls" in /etc/selinux/config
5. add "single enforcing=0" to /boot/grub/grub.conf
6. touch /.autorelabel
7. reboot
8. wait until the machine boots to single-user mode
# sestatus 
SELinux status:                 enabled
SELinuxfs mount:                /selinux
Current mode:                   permissive
Mode from config file:          enforcing
Policy version:                 21
Policy from config file:        mls
# matchpathcon /root
/root	system_u:object_r:default_t:s0
# restorecon -Rv /root
# ls -dZ /root
drwxr-x---  root root system_u:object_r:default_t:s0   root
#

Actual results:
/root is labelled default_t

Expected results:
/root is labelled sysadm_home_dir_t 

Additional information:
The problem is not tied to single-user mode, you can boot directly to runlevel 3 or 5 and you will see the same picture. Everything gets fine as soon as I run "genhomedircon ; restorecon -Rv /root" manually.

Comment 1 Daniel Walsh 2011-06-15 12:58:06 UTC

I think we have to add this to the docs for MLS.  Not sure how we can fix it other then the user running genhomedircon after switching to mls policy.

I would state it as 

After relabeling run

#genhomedircon
# restorecon -R -v /root /home  ANYOTHERHOMEDIRS

Comment 3 Douglas Silas 2012-01-25 14:54:41 UTC

Sorry, I meant to shout if I shoutn't...

Comment 4 RHEL Program Management 2012-04-02 11:20:42 UTC

This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion
in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux release.  Product Management has
requested further review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for
potential inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux release for currently
deployed products.  This request is not yet committed for inclusion in
a release.

Comment 8 Martin Prpič 2012-08-22 12:39:24 UTC

Moving to ON_QA. Added an "Enabling MLS in SELinux" which includes an extra step (#6) that was requested do be documented in this bug.