| Summary: | Selinux error while installing smstools | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | info <info> |
| Component: | smstools | Assignee: | Patrick C. F. Ernzer <pcfe> |
| Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | unspecified | ||
| Version: | 16 | CC: | martin, mmahut, pcfe, rmy |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i686 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2013-02-13 19:11:17 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
I have this issue as well. I solved it the way Miroslav recommended in https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=760813#c3 : systemctl stop auditd.service semanage permissive -a useradd_t yum -y install smstools systemctl start auditd.service semanage permissive -d useradd_t The semanage commands each took about five minutes for me, so wait for them to run... This message is a reminder that Fedora 16 is nearing its end of life. Approximately 4 (four) weeks from now Fedora will stop maintaining and issuing updates for Fedora 16. It is Fedora's policy to close all bug reports from releases that are no longer maintained. At that time this bug will be closed as WONTFIX if it remains open with a Fedora 'version' of '16'. Package Maintainer: If you wish for this bug to remain open because you plan to fix it in a currently maintained version, simply change the 'version' to a later Fedora version prior to Fedora 16's end of life. Bug Reporter: Thank you for reporting this issue and we are sorry that we may not be able to fix it before Fedora 16 is end of life. If you would still like to see this bug fixed and are able to reproduce it against a later version of Fedora, you are encouraged to click on "Clone This Bug" and open it against that version of Fedora. Although we aim to fix as many bugs as possible during every release's lifetime, sometimes those efforts are overtaken by events. Often a more recent Fedora release includes newer upstream software that fixes bugs or makes them obsolete. The process we are following is described here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping note: while this bug will be auto-closed soon. it's being tracked for F17 as Bug 878842 F18 as Bug 853556 Fedora 16 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2013-02-12. Fedora 16 is no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug. If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of Fedora please feel free to reopen this bug against that version. Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed. |
Description of problem: I got the following error while installing smstools via yum: Error in PREIN scriptlet in rpm package smstools-3.1.14-2.fc15.i686 error: %pre(smstools-3.1.14-2.fc15.i686) scriptlet failed, exit status 12 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): smstools-3.1.14-2.fc15.i686.rpm How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. yum install smstools Actual results: An selinux security error during installation, causing the installation to be aborted. Expected results: Successful installation of smstools Additional info: This is the report I get from selinux: SELinux is preventing /usr/sbin/useradd from write access on the directory /var/lib. ***** Plugin catchall_labels (83.8 confidence) suggests ******************** If you want to allow useradd to have write access on the lib directory Then you need to change the label on /var/lib Do # semanage fcontext -a -t FILE_TYPE '/var/lib' where FILE_TYPE is one of the following: httpd_user_script_exec_type, user_home_type, pcscd_var_run_t, home_root_t, user_home_dir_t, httpd_user_content_type, mail_spool_t, etc_t. Then execute: restorecon -v '/var/lib' ***** Plugin catchall (17.1 confidence) suggests *************************** If you believe that useradd should be allowed write access on the lib directory by default. Then you should report this as a bug. You can generate a local policy module to allow this access. Do allow this access for now by executing: # grep useradd /var/log/audit/audit.log | audit2allow -M mypol # semodule -i mypol.pp Additional Information: Source Context unconfined_u:system_r:useradd_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 Target Context system_u:object_r:var_lib_t:s0 Target Objects /var/lib [ dir ] Source useradd Source Path /usr/sbin/useradd Port <Unknown> Host legolas.kobaltwit.lan Source RPM Packages shadow-utils-4.1.4.3-10.fc16 Target RPM Packages filesystem-2.4.44-1.fc16 Policy RPM selinux-policy-3.10.0-64.fc16 Selinux Enabled True Policy Type targeted Enforcing Mode Enforcing Host Name legolas.kobaltwit.lan Platform Linux legolas.kobaltwit.lan 3.1.5-6.fc16.i686.PAE #1 SMP Thu Dec 15 16:19:31 UTC 2011 i686 i686 Alert Count 1 First Seen za 24 dec 2011 09:42:42 CET Last Seen za 24 dec 2011 09:42:42 CET Local ID a128e209-6c32-4fbf-aca6-7a5c8a8d36f6 Raw Audit Messages type=AVC msg=audit(1324716162.276:86): avc: denied { write } for pid=3336 comm="useradd" name="lib" dev=dm-1 ino=390146 scontext=unconfined_u:system_r:useradd_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 tcontext=system_u:object_r:var_lib_t:s0 tclass=dir type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1324716162.276:86): arch=i386 syscall=mkdir success=no exit=EACCES a0=bf96d72e a1=0 a2=bf96c8d4 a3=1 items=0 ppid=3328 pid=3336 auid=500 uid=0 gid=0 euid=0 suid=0 fsuid=0 egid=0 sgid=0 fsgid=0 tty=pts24 ses=2 comm=useradd exe=/usr/sbin/useradd subj=unconfined_u:system_r:useradd_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 key=(null) Hash: useradd,useradd_t,var_lib_t,dir,write audit2allow #============= useradd_t ============== #!!!! The source type 'useradd_t' can write to a 'dir' of the following types: # httpd_user_script_exec_type, user_home_type, pcscd_var_run_t, home_root_t, user_home_dir_t, httpd_user_content_type, mail_spool_t, etc_t allow useradd_t var_lib_t:dir write; audit2allow -R #============= useradd_t ============== #!!!! The source type 'useradd_t' can write to a 'dir' of the following types: # httpd_user_script_exec_type, user_home_type, pcscd_var_run_t, home_root_t, user_home_dir_t, httpd_user_content_type, mail_spool_t, etc_t allow useradd_t var_lib_t:dir write;