Description of problem: SELinux is preventing /usr/sbin/useradd from 'write' accesses on the file /etc/passwd-. ***** Plugin restorecon (99.5 confidence) suggests ************************ If you want to fix the label. /etc/passwd- default label should be passwd_file_t. Then you can run restorecon. Do # /sbin/restorecon -v /etc/passwd- ***** Plugin catchall (1.49 confidence) suggests ************************** If you believe that useradd should be allowed write access on the passwd- file 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:unconfined_r:useradd_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 Target Context system_u:object_r:tmpfs_t:s0 Target Objects /etc/passwd- [ file ] Source useradd Source Path /usr/sbin/useradd Port <Unknown> Host (removed) Source RPM Packages shadow-utils-4.1.5.1-15.fc21.x86_64 Target RPM Packages Policy RPM selinux-policy-3.13.1-65.fc21.noarch Selinux Enabled True Policy Type targeted Enforcing Mode Enforcing Host Name (removed) Platform Linux (removed) 3.16.0-0.rc5.git1.1.fc21.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Jul 16 18:48:51 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 Alert Count 1 First Seen 2014-07-22 07:29:17 MSK Last Seen 2014-07-22 07:29:17 MSK Local ID 5fb12395-e077-4c63-acbc-566cd3d79d89 Raw Audit Messages type=AVC msg=audit(1405999757.551:384): avc: denied { write } for pid=2164 comm="useradd" name="passwd-" dev="vda3" ino=237877 scontext=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:useradd_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 tcontext=system_u:object_r:tmpfs_t:s0 tclass=file permissive=0 type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1405999757.551:384): arch=x86_64 syscall=open success=no exit=EACCES a0=7ffff0b74a60 a1=241 a2=1b6 a3=3a745f656c69665f items=0 ppid=2163 pid=2164 auid=1000 uid=0 gid=0 euid=0 suid=0 fsuid=0 egid=0 sgid=0 fsgid=0 tty=pts0 ses=1 comm=useradd exe=/usr/sbin/useradd subj=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:useradd_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 key=(null) Hash: useradd,useradd_t,tmpfs_t,file,write Version-Release number of selected component: selinux-policy-3.13.1-65.fc21.noarch Additional info: reporter: libreport-2.2.3 hashmarkername: setroubleshoot kernel: 3.16.0-0.rc5.git1.1.fc21.x86_64 type: libreport
systemd bug which has been fixed.