Bug 1692435
| Summary: | Run rngd as unprivileged user | ||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 | Reporter: | Steve Grubb <sgrubb> |
| Component: | rng-tools | Assignee: | Neil Horman <nhorman> |
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | Vilém Maršík <vmarsik> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | Tomas Capek <tcapek> |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 8.0 | CC: | bhu, core-kernel-mgr, jreznik, lmanasko, mjahoda, nhorman, rvr, vmarsik |
| Target Milestone: | beta | Keywords: | RFE |
| Target Release: | 8.1 | Flags: | pm-rhel:
mirror+
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| Hardware: | Unspecified | ||
| OS: | Unspecified | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Enhancement | |
| Doc Text: |
.`rngd` is now able to run with non-root privileges
The random number generator daemon (`rngd`) checks whether data supplied by the source of randomness is sufficiently random and then stores the data in the kernel's random-number entropy pool. With this update, `rngd` is able to run with non-root user privileges to enhance system security.
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| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2020-04-28 16:06:42 UTC | Type: | Bug |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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| Bug Depends On: | |||
| Bug Blocks: | 1510124, 1671421, 1722609 | ||
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Description
Steve Grubb
2019-03-25 15:32:49 UTC
currently this effort is blocked because rngd needs access to the random_wakeup_threshold sysctl value which is owned by root and is only writeable by the root user. changes ready to be merged here: https://src.osci.redhat.com/rpms/rng-tools/pull-request/2 ack. Hi Neil, where should this be fixed? I cannot see it working in latest 8.1: # pscap | grep rngd 1 1767 root rngd full rng-tools-6.6-2.el8.x86_64 RHEL-8.1.0-20190718.n.2 BaseOS x86_64 Was the patch merged at all? # grep CAP_SYS_ADMIN /usr/lib/systemd/system/rngd.service | wc -l 0 yes, it was fixed in rng-tools-6.6-3. why is rng-tools-6.6-2 still in the compose? Neil, latest 8.1.0 (RHEL-8.1.0-20190815.n.0 BaseOS x86_64) still only has rng-tools-6.6-2.el8.x86_64 . No newer version exists even in brewroot - see http://download.eng.brq.redhat.com/brewroot/packages/rng-tools/6.6/ . Are you sure you have built the patched version? Looks fixed: [root@lenovo-sr650-01 ~]# pscap | grep rngd 1 1920 root rngd full [root@lenovo-sr650-01 ~]# cat /etc/redhat-release Red Hat Enterprise Linux release 8.1 (Ootpa) [root@intel-canoepass-03 ~]# pscap | grep rngd 1 1293 rngd rngd sys_admin [root@intel-canoepass-03 ~]# cat /etc/redhat-release Red Hat Enterprise Linux release 8.2 Beta (Ootpa) Since the problem described in this bug report should be resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated files, follow the link below. If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report. https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2020:1762 |