Description of problem: Happens when I try to log in to the Red Hat VPN using OpenVPN via NetworkManager. SELinux is preventing /usr/sbin/openvpn from read, write access on the chr_file tun. ***** Plugin catchall (100. confidence) suggests ************************** If you believe that openvpn should be allowed read write access on the tun chr_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 openvpn /var/log/audit/audit.log | audit2allow -M mypol # semodule -i mypol.pp Additional Information: Source Context system_u:system_r:openvpn_t:s0 Target Context system_u:object_r:svirt_image_t:s0:c151,c840 Target Objects tun [ chr_file ] Source openvpn Source Path /usr/sbin/openvpn Port <Unknown> Host (removed) Source RPM Packages openvpn-2.3.4-4.fc21.x86_64 Target RPM Packages Policy RPM selinux-policy-3.13.1-79.fc21.noarch Selinux Enabled True Policy Type targeted Enforcing Mode Enforcing Host Name (removed) Platform Linux (removed) 3.17.0-0.rc3.git2.2.fc22.1.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu Sep 4 16:43:36 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 Alert Count 1 First Seen 2014-09-10 16:56:42 PDT Last Seen 2014-09-10 16:56:42 PDT Local ID 129c107b-ff42-4c7e-8fe2-9e60ff0a3d02 Raw Audit Messages type=AVC msg=audit(1410393402.364:7777): avc: denied { read write } for pid=21265 comm="openvpn" name="tun" dev="devtmpfs" ino=13429 scontext=system_u:system_r:openvpn_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:object_r:svirt_image_t:s0:c151,c840 tclass=chr_file permissive=0 type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1410393402.364:7777): arch=x86_64 syscall=open success=no exit=EACCES a0=7f823973efdd a1=2 a2=0 a3=0 items=0 ppid=21250 pid=21265 auid=4294967295 uid=0 gid=0 euid=0 suid=0 fsuid=0 egid=0 sgid=0 fsgid=0 tty=(none) ses=4294967295 comm=openvpn exe=/usr/sbin/openvpn subj=system_u:system_r:openvpn_t:s0 key=(null) Hash: openvpn,openvpn_t,svirt_image_t,chr_file,read,write Version-Release number of selected component: selinux-policy-3.13.1-79.fc21.noarch Additional info: reporter: libreport-2.2.3 hashmarkername: setroubleshoot kernel: 3.17.0-0.rc3.git2.2.fc22.1.x86_64 type: libreport
Oh, I see. This is fall-out from https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1139646 , I think, which gave /dev/net/tun the svirt_image_t type.
I've confirmed this locally as well. Workaround is the following: # grep openvpn /var/log/audit/audit.log | audit2allow -M mypol # semodule -i mypol.pp
This is also preventing /usr/sbin/vpnc from doing similarly: ***** Plugin catchall (100. confidence) suggests ************************** If you believe that vpnc should be allowed read access on the tun chr_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 vpnc /var/log/audit/audit.log | audit2allow -M mypol # semodule -i mypol.pp Additional Information: Source Context system_u:system_r:vpnc_t:s0 Target Context system_u:object_r:svirt_image_t:s0:c706,c928 Target Objects /dev/net/tun [ chr_file ] Source vpnc Source Path /usr/sbin/vpnc Port <Unknown> Host thriss Source RPM Packages vpnc-0.5.3-23.svn457.fc22.x86_64 Target RPM Packages Policy RPM selinux-policy-3.13.1-81.fc22.noarch Selinux Enabled True Policy Type targeted Enforcing Mode Permissive Host Name thriss Platform Linux thriss 3.17.0-0.rc4.git3.1.fc22.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu Sep 11 13:17:37 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 Alert Count 56 First Seen 2014-09-12 13:22:39 EDT Last Seen 2014-09-12 16:00:01 EDT Local ID f5142b3c-aebd-485a-9c63-3ccdc0c2f584 Raw Audit Messages type=AVC msg=audit(1410552001.433:828): avc: denied { read } for pid=2234 comm="vpnc" path="/dev/net/tun" dev="devtmpfs" ino=14367 scontext=system_u:system_r:vpnc_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:object_r:svirt_image_t:s0:c706,c928 tclass=chr_file permissive=1 type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1410552001.433:828): arch=x86_64 syscall=read success=yes exit=168 a0=5 a1=7f85fec78708 a2=1000 a3=0 items=0 ppid=2053 pid=2234 auid=4294967295 uid=0 gid=0 euid=0 suid=0 fsuid=0 egid=0 sgid=0 fsgid=0 tty=(none) ses=4294967295 comm=vpnc exe=/usr/sbin/vpnc subj=system_u:system_r:vpnc_t:s0 key=(null) Hash: vpnc,vpnc_t,svirt_image_t,chr_file,read
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1139646 ***