Bug 1008577 - login: pam_selinux(login:session): Unable to get valid context for root
Summary: login: pam_selinux(login:session): Unable to get valid context for root
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: pam
Version: rawhide
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Tomas Mraz
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2013-09-16 16:00 UTC by Dominick Grift
Modified: 2013-09-30 00:49 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

Fixed In Version: libselinux-2.1.13-19.fc20
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2013-09-20 11:13:24 UTC
Type: Bug
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Description Dominick Grift 2013-09-16 16:00:14 UTC
Description of problem:

login program not able to determine valid context, probably due to misuse of libselinux functions ( but do not shoot me if it isnt )

Sep 16 17:54:38 localhost login: pam_selinux(login:session): Open Session
Sep 16 17:54:38 localhost login: pam_selinux(login:session): Open Session
Sep 16 17:54:38 localhost login: pam_selinux(login:session): Username= root SELinux User= base_u Level= (null)
Sep 16 17:54:38 localhost login: pam_selinux(login:session): Unable to get valid context for root
Sep 16 17:54:38 localhost login: pam_unix(login:session): session opened for user root by LOGIN(uid=0)
Sep 16 17:54:38 localhost login: ROOT LOGIN ON tty1

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
util-linux-2.23.2-2.fc19.x86_64

How reproducible:
load a custom policy that uses custom identifiers

Comment 1 Daniel Walsh 2013-09-16 19:11:33 UTC
Dominick What is the label of the login program?  This usually means that the app can not figure out proper login shell for the user.

Comment 2 Daniel Walsh 2013-09-16 19:15:19 UTC
You need to make sure your policy, context files are written properly for the selinux login programs to work.

getdefaultcon and getconlist should help.

Comment 3 Dominick Grift 2013-09-16 19:15:54 UTC
base_u:base_r:base_t

And there is a /etc/selinux/dummy/contexts/users/base_u file

with:

base_r:base_t base_r:base_t

there is also a seuser: base_u and root it mapped to it

The exact same configuration works fine on debian

Comment 4 Dominick Grift 2013-09-16 19:17:43 UTC
(In reply to Daniel Walsh from comment #2)
> You need to make sure your policy, context files are written properly for
> the selinux login programs to work.
> 
> getdefaultcon and getconlist should help.

I know that and i wouldnt make an issue out of it if i wasnt pretty confident that this is a case of misuse of libselinux functions

You see the exact same configuration works fine on debian

Comment 5 Dominick Grift 2013-09-16 19:18:56 UTC
With that said, i am still only human, but i triple checked everything and i think my config is fine and if you want you can come have a look yourself

Comment 6 Daniel Walsh 2013-09-16 19:31:45 UTC
What does

selinuxdefcon dgrift base_u:base_r:base_t

Say?

Comment 7 Daniel Walsh 2013-09-16 19:32:56 UTC
If this is a bug it is in pam_selinux

Comment 8 Dominick Grift 2013-09-17 11:52:16 UTC
This was fixed in:

libselinux-2.1.13-19.fc20.x86_64
libselinux-utils-2.1.13-19.fc20.x86_64
libselinux-python-2.1.13-19.fc20.x86_64

Although you might want to get rid of the verbose output:

Security Context base_u:base_r:base_t Assigned
Key Creation Context base_u:base_r:base_t Assigned

Comment 9 Dominick Grift 2013-09-17 12:00:44 UTC
(In reply to Dominick Grift from comment #8)

> Although you might want to get rid of the verbose output:
> 
> Security Context base_u:base_r:base_t Assigned
> Key Creation Context base_u:base_r:base_t Assigned

Forget the above my pam_selinux was still configured with verbose debug

Comment 10 Dominick Grift 2013-09-20 11:13:24 UTC
I will mark this as fixed, as libselinux-2.1.13-19.fc20.x86_64 fixed it

Comment 11 Fedora Update System 2013-09-23 13:57:23 UTC
libselinux-2.1.13-19.fc20 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 20.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/libselinux-2.1.13-19.fc20

Comment 12 Fedora Update System 2013-09-30 00:49:49 UTC
libselinux-2.1.13-19.fc20 has been pushed to the Fedora 20 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.


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