Bug 1301327 - user crontab stopped working
Summary: user crontab stopped working
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 1298192
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: selinux-policy
Version: 23
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
unspecified
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Miroslav Grepl
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2016-01-24 08:34 UTC by Laurentiu Pancescu
Modified: 2016-01-24 16:44 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2016-01-24 16:44:14 UTC
Type: Bug
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Description Laurentiu Pancescu 2016-01-24 08:34:24 UTC
I only noticed yesterday evening that the automatic remote backups, triggered twice daily via a user crontab, had stopped working after the upgrade from F22 to F23 (performed last weekend).  I found log messages like the following:

Jan 23 19:42:01 localhost.localdomain crond[1111]: (meike) Unauthorized SELinux context=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 file_context=unconfined_u:object_r:user_cron_spool_t:s0 (/var/spool/cron/meike)
Jan 23 19:42:01 localhost.localdomain crond[1111]: (meike) FAILED (loading cron table)

Unfortunately, restorecon only displays a warning about missing the default context for that file; I also removed the crontab with "crontab -r" and recreated it with "crontab -e", but this results in the same SELinux context - the backup doesn't run, and I see the same log message mentioning SELinux again.  Does the latest SELinux policy require userspace changes in crontab?

Comment 1 Kim Bisgaard 2016-01-24 10:39:53 UTC
I get this too, and I too recently upgraded from :
Jan 24 10:20:37 jukebox crontab[19006]: (mythtv) BEGIN EDIT (mythtv)
Jan 24 10:21:44 jukebox crontab[19006]: (mythtv) REPLACE (mythtv)
Jan 24 10:21:44 jukebox crontab[19006]: (mythtv) END EDIT (mythtv)
Jan 24 10:22:01 jukebox crond[8384]: (root) Unauthorized SELinux context=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 file_context=unconfined_u:object_r:user_cron_spool_t:s0 (/var/spool/cron/root)
Jan 24 10:22:01 jukebox crond[8384]: (root) FAILED (loading cron table)
Jan 24 10:22:01 jukebox crond[8384]: (mythtv) Unauthorized SELinux context=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 file_context=unconfined_u:object_r:user_cron_spool_t:s0 (/var/spool/cron/mythtv)
Jan 24 10:22:01 jukebox crond[8384]: (mythtv) FAILED (loading cron table)

ls -alZ /var/spool/cron
total 12
drwx------.  2 root   root   system_u:object_r:user_cron_spool_t:s0     4096 jan 24 10:21 .
drwxr-xr-x. 14 root   root   system_u:object_r:var_spool_t:s0           4096 sep 10 10:23 ..
-rw-------.  1 mythtv mythtv unconfined_u:object_r:user_cron_spool_t:s0  127 jan 24 10:21 mythtv
-rw-------.  1 root   root   unconfined_u:object_r:user_cron_spool_t:s0    0 mar 13  2014 root

ls -lZ /usr/sbin/crond
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root system_u:object_r:crond_exec_t:s0 70152 jul 13  2015 /usr/sbin/crond

Comment 2 Kim Bisgaard 2016-01-24 11:46:32 UTC
rpm -qa cronie selinux-\*
selinux-policy-3.13.1-158.2.fc23.noarch
cronie-1.5.0-3.fc23.x86_64
selinux-policy-targeted-3.13.1-158.2.fc23.noarch
selinux-policy-devel-3.13.1-158.2.fc23.noarch

Comment 3 Petr Lautrbach 2016-01-24 16:44:14 UTC
Please update your kernel to kernel-4.3.3-303.fc23 - https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2016-b59fd603be

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1298192 ***


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