Bug 751472

Summary: cannot update faillock in MLS when using sudo
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: Josh <jokajak>
Component: selinux-policyAssignee: Miroslav Grepl <mgrepl>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: BaseOS QE Security Team <qe-baseos-security>
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Version: 6.2CC: dwalsh, mmalik
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Description Josh 2011-11-04 20:26:11 UTC
Description of problem:
faillock cannot be updated when you log in at any level above s0 and try to sudo

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
3.7.19-123.el6.noarch

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. add faillock to /etc/pam.d/system-auth
2. ssh user/staff_r/s15:c0.c1023@localhost
3. sudo -i -r sysadm_r # with invalid password
  
Actual results:
faillock is not updated

Expected results:
faillock is updated

Additional info:
faillock is updated if you log in as s0-s15:c0.c1023

time->Fri Nov  4 16:23:15 2011
type=PATH msg=audit(1320438195.222:360507): item=0 name="/var/run/faillock/user" inode=9831173 dev=fd:00 mode=0100600 ouid=500 ogid=0 rdev=00:00 obj=system_u:object_r:faillog_t:s0
type=CWD msg=audit(1320438195.222:360507):  cwd="/home/user"
type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1320438195.222:360507): arch=c000003e syscall=2 success=no exit=-13 a0=7fc3b7699fe0 a1=2 a2=180 a3=8 items=1 ppid=21819 pid=21854 auid=500 uid=0 gid=502 euid=0 suid=0 fsuid=0 egid=502 sgid=502 fsgid=502 tty=pts0 ses=95 comm="sudo" exe="/usr/bin/sudo" subj=staff_u:staff_r:staff_sudo_t:s15:c0.c1023 key="access"
type=AVC msg=audit(1320438195.222:360507): avc:  denied  { write } for  pid=21854 comm="sudo" name="user" dev=dm-0 ino=9831173 scontext=staff_u:staff_r:staff_sudo_t:s15:c0.c1023 tcontext=system_u:object_r:faillog_t:s0 tclass=file

Comment 2 Miroslav Grepl 2011-11-07 09:03:51 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 750869 ***