Bug 1378204 - seusers contains a login for a user named "system_u"
Summary: seusers contains a login for a user named "system_u"
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: selinux-policy
Version: 24
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Lukas Vrabec
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Whiteboard:
: 1382880 1384809 1385379 (view as bug list)
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2016-09-21 20:05 UTC by Gary Tierney
Modified: 2016-11-10 03:30 UTC (History)
9 users (show)

Fixed In Version: selinux-policy-3.13.1-191.20.fc24
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Last Closed: 2016-11-10 03:30:11 UTC
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Description Gary Tierney 2016-09-21 20:05:04 UTC
Description of problem:

In current policy there is a login named system_u mapped to the system_u SELinux user.  This seems to be have used in the past to allow daemons like cronie to get a default context for a "system" user: https://github.com/henrysher/cronie/commit/e5280235809844f54d5956ec281472b63dcfc3f4

With a recent patch submitted to genhomedircon which removes the hardcoded user identifier (and a conditional which skips homedir context generation for that login) we now see a warning:

libsemanage.add_user: user system_u not in password file

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

3.13.1-191.14.fc24

How reproducible:
Steps to Reproduce:

Run genhomedircon with new patch

See http://marc.info/?t=147317021100002&r=1&w=2

Actual results:

A warning that no login exists for a user named "system_u"

Expected results:

No warnings

Additional info:

Comment 1 Fedora Admin XMLRPC Client 2016-09-27 15:09:30 UTC
This package has changed ownership in the Fedora Package Database.  Reassigning to the new owner of this component.

Comment 2 Orion Poplawski 2016-10-05 21:29:35 UTC
Still present with selinux-policy-3.13.1-218.fc26.noarch

Comment 3 Petr Lautrbach 2016-10-10 10:21:17 UTC
*** Bug 1382880 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4 Petr Lautrbach 2016-10-10 11:41:52 UTC
A temporary Rawhide scratch build with remove system_u can be found here - 
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=16027663

Comment 5 Petr Lautrbach 2016-10-10 11:56:42 UTC
To fix it in dist-git, extract config.tgz, use the following patch and recreate the archive config.tgz.

diff -r -u config/appconfig-mcs/seusers config.fixed/appconfig-mcs/seusers
--- config/appconfig-mcs/seusers        2009-08-28 21:06:34.000000000 +0200
+++ config.fixed/appconfig-mcs/seusers  2016-10-10 13:52:22.706584896 +0200
@@ -1,3 +1,2 @@
-system_u:system_u:s0-mcs_systemhigh
 root:unconfined_u:s0-mcs_systemhigh
 __default__:unconfined_u:s0-mcs_systemhigh
diff -r -u config/appconfig-mls/seusers config.fixed/appconfig-mls/seusers
--- config/appconfig-mls/seusers        2009-08-28 20:59:08.000000000 +0200
+++ config.fixed/appconfig-mls/seusers  2016-10-10 13:52:22.812584921 +0200
@@ -1,3 +1,2 @@
-system_u:system_u:s0-mls_systemhigh
 root:root:s0-mls_systemhigh
 __default__:user_u:s0
diff -r -u config/appconfig-standard/seusers config.fixed/appconfig-standard/seusers
--- config/appconfig-standard/seusers   2009-08-28 20:59:08.000000000 +0200
+++ config.fixed/appconfig-standard/seusers     2016-10-10 13:52:22.742584905 +0200
@@ -1,3 +1,2 @@
-system_u:system_u
 root:root
 __default__:user_u

Comment 6 Petr Lautrbach 2016-10-10 13:06:29 UTC
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=16028136  fc25 scratch build

Comment 7 Lukas Vrabec 2016-10-10 14:43:08 UTC
Thank you Petr for builds.

Comment 8 Petr Lautrbach 2016-10-14 08:41:16 UTC
*** Bug 1384809 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 9 Petr Lautrbach 2016-10-16 16:29:29 UTC
*** Bug 1385379 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 10 Fedora Update System 2016-11-04 12:12:13 UTC
selinux-policy-3.13.1-191.20.fc24 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 24. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2016-7ce27629b3

Comment 11 Fedora Update System 2016-11-05 03:36:41 UTC
selinux-policy-3.13.1-191.20.fc24 has been pushed to the Fedora 24 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for
instructions on how to install test updates.
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2016-7ce27629b3

Comment 12 Fedora Update System 2016-11-10 03:30:11 UTC
selinux-policy-3.13.1-191.20.fc24 has been pushed to the Fedora 24 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.


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