Bug 1296379 - selinux is preventing collectd ipmi module from working
Summary: selinux is preventing collectd ipmi module from working
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Status: CLOSED INSUFFICIENT_DATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: selinux-policy-targeted
Version: 23
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Miroslav Grepl
QA Contact: Ben Levenson
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2016-01-07 02:26 UTC by Daniel Rowe
Modified: 2016-10-17 11:59 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2016-10-17 11:59:13 UTC
Type: Bug
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Description Daniel Rowe 2016-01-07 02:26:39 UTC 
Description of problem:

Unable to use the collectd ipmi module:

AVC avc:  denied  { read write } for  pid=5012 comm="collectd" name="ipmi0" dev="devtmpfs" ino=13972 scontext=system_u:system_r:collectd_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:object_r:ipmi_device_t:s0 tclass=chr_file permissive=0


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

Latest F23 packages.


How reproducible:

Everytime.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install collectd and ipmid package on a box with ipmi (dell server in my case).
2. Run collectd with ipmid stats collection enabled
3. See fail

Actual results:

Denied  

Expected results:

Works

Additional info:
Comment 1 Miroslav Grepl 2016-01-21 10:56:59 UTC 
Does it mean you use a collectd plugin?
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