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Bug 1150699

Summary: SELinux is preventing /usr/bin/python2.7 from using the 'chown' capabilities.
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Reporter: David Jaša <djasa>
Component: selinux-policyAssignee: Miroslav Grepl <mgrepl>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Milos Malik <mmalik>
Severity: unspecified Docs Contact:
Priority: unspecified    
Version: 7.1CC: mmalik
Target Milestone: rc   
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Hardware: x86_64   
OS: Linux   
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Description David Jaša 2014-10-08 18:09:37 UTC
Description of problem:
SELinux is preventing /usr/bin/python2.7 from using the 'chown' capabilities.

*****  Plugin catchall (100. confidence) suggests   **************************

If you believe that python2.7 should have the chown capability 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 sosreport /var/log/audit/audit.log | audit2allow -M mypol
# semodule -i mypol.pp

Additional Information:
Source Context                system_u:system_r:sosreport_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023
Target Context                system_u:system_r:sosreport_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023
Target Objects                 [ capability ]
Source                        sosreport
Source Path                   /usr/bin/python2.7
Port                          <Unknown>
Host                          (removed)
Source RPM Packages           python-2.7.5-16.el7.x86_64
Target RPM Packages           
Policy RPM                    selinux-policy-3.13.1-2.el7.noarch
Selinux Enabled               True
Policy Type                   targeted
Enforcing Mode                Enforcing
Host Name                     (removed)
Platform                      Linux (removed) 3.10.0-175.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue
                              Sep 30 02:14:47 EDT 2014 x86_64 x86_64
Alert Count                   128
First Seen                    2014-10-08 00:37:21 CEST
Last Seen                     2014-10-08 19:43:48 CEST
Local ID                      1cb0c9bf-9f5b-43fe-849f-120b3b1a932b

Raw Audit Messages
type=AVC msg=audit(1412790228.521:3005): avc:  denied  { chown } for  pid=7396 comm="sosreport" capability=0  scontext=system_u:system_r:sosreport_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 tcontext=system_u:system_r:sosreport_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 tclass=capability


type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1412790228.521:3005): arch=x86_64 syscall=chown success=no exit=EPERM a0=2b96da0 a1=0 a2=3f3d a3=0 items=0 ppid=7395 pid=7396 auid=4294967295 uid=0 gid=0 euid=0 suid=0 fsuid=0 egid=0 sgid=0 fsgid=0 tty=(none) ses=4294967295 comm=sosreport exe=/usr/bin/python2.7 subj=system_u:system_r:sosreport_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 key=(null)

Hash: sosreport,sosreport_t,sosreport_t,capability,chown

Additional info:
reporter:       libreport-2.1.11
hashmarkername: setroubleshoot
kernel:         3.10.0-175.el7.x86_64
type:           libreport

Comment 2 Miroslav Grepl 2014-10-13 09:53:23 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1150700 ***