Bug 736300

Summary: SELinux is preventing smbcontrol from read/write operation on /dev/console
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: Milos Malik <mmalik>
Component: selinux-policyAssignee: Miroslav Grepl <mgrepl>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Milos Malik <mmalik>
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Version: 6.2CC: dwalsh, ksrot
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Fixed In Version: selinux-policy-3.7.19-110.el6 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Description Milos Malik 2011-09-07 10:35:16 UTC 
Description of problem:


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
selinux-policy-3.7.19-109.el6.noarch
selinux-policy-targeted-3.7.19-109.el6.noarch
samba-3.5.10-99.el6.i686
samba-common-3.5.10-99.el6.i686

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. get a fresh RHEL-6.2 machine
2. log in as root via console
3. run following automated test:
/CoreOS/selinux-policy/Regression/bz429726-smbd-cannot-change-unix-passwords
  
Actual results:
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time->Wed Sep  7 05:26:26 2011
type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1315387586.565:236350): arch=40000003 syscall=11 success=yes exit=0 a0=8a9a7d0 a1=8a969b8 a2=8a27660 a3=8a969b8 items=0 ppid=12849 pid=14983 auid=4294967295 uid=0 gid=0 euid=0 suid=0 fsuid=0 egid=0 sgid=0 fsgid=0 tty=(none) ses=4294967295 comm="smbcontrol" exe="/usr/bin/smbcontrol" subj=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:smbcontrol_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 key=(null)
type=AVC msg=audit(1315387586.565:236350): avc:  denied  { read write } for  pid=14983 comm="smbcontrol" path="/dev/console" dev=devtmpfs ino=5261 scontext=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:smbcontrol_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 tcontext=system_u:object_r:console_device_t:s0 tclass=chr_file
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Expected results:
* no AVCs
Comment 1 Miroslav Grepl 2011-09-07 12:34:04 UTC 
We have this in RHEL5

term_use_console(smbcontrol_t)
Comment 2 Miroslav Grepl 2011-09-08 14:30:17 UTC 
Fixed in selinux-policy-3.7.19-110.el6
Comment 5 errata-xmlrpc 2011-12-06 10:18:22 UTC 
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, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2011-1511.html