Description of problem: Confined users(in my case staff_u) cannot get timezone on system using command "timedatectl" Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): $ rpm -q selinux-policy selinux-policy-3.14.3-51.fc30.noarch How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. $ id -Z staff_u:staff_r:staff_t:s0:c0.c1023 2. $ timedatectl Actual results: $ timedatectl Failed to query server: Access denied Expected results: $ timedatectl Local time: Mon 2019-10-28 13:36:25 CET Universal time: Mon 2019-10-28 12:36:25 UTC RTC time: Mon 2019-10-28 12:36:26 Time zone: Europe/Prague (CET, +0100) System clock synchronized: no NTP service: active RTC in local TZ: no Additional info: time->Mon Oct 28 13:37:59 2019 type=USER_AVC msg=audit(1572266279.536:2283): pid=1 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 subj=system_u:system_r:init_t:s0 msg='avc: denied { status } for auid=n/a uid=0 gid=0 cmdline="/usr/sbin/timedatex" scontext=system_u:system_r:timedatex_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:system_r:init_t:s0 tclass=system permissive=0 exe="/usr/lib/systemd/systemd" sauid=0 hostname=? addr=? terminal=?' ---- time->Mon Oct 28 13:37:59 2019 type=USER_AVC msg=audit(1572266279.538:2284): pid=1 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 subj=system_u:system_r:init_t:s0 msg='avc: denied { status } for auid=n/a uid=0 gid=0 path="/usr/lib/systemd/system/chronyd.service" cmdline="/usr/sbin/timedatex" scontext=system_u:system_r:timedatex_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:object_r:chronyd_unit_file_t:s0 tclass=service permissive=0 exe="/usr/lib/systemd/systemd" sauid=0 hostname=? addr=? terminal=?' ---- time->Mon Oct 28 13:37:59 2019 type=USER_AVC msg=audit(1572266279.538:2285): pid=1219 uid=81 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 subj=system_u:system_r:system_dbusd_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 msg='avc: denied { send_msg } for scontext=staff_u:staff_r:staff_t:s0:c0.c1023 tcontext=system_u:system_r:timedatex_t:s0 tclass=dbus permissive=0 exe="/usr/bin/dbus-broker" sauid=81 hostname=? addr=? terminal=?' ---- time->Mon Oct 28 13:37:59 2019 type=USER_AVC msg=audit(1572266279.541:2287): pid=1219 uid=81 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 subj=system_u:system_r:system_dbusd_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 msg='avc: denied { send_msg } for scontext=staff_u:staff_r:staff_t:s0:c0.c1023 tcontext=system_u:system_r:timedatex_t:s0 tclass=dbus permissive=0 exe="/usr/bin/dbus-broker" sauid=81 hostname=? addr=? terminal=?'
PR for Fedora: Added macro for timedatex to chat over dbus https://github.com/fedora-selinux/selinux-policy-contrib/pull/160 Allow x_userdomain to dbus_chat with timedatex https://github.com/fedora-selinux/selinux-policy/pull/291 Update timedatex SELinux policy to to sychronizate time with GNOME https://github.com/fedora-selinux/selinux-policy-contrib/pull/138
PRs merged. commit 02d05118d9915dc9b3f7564b9de92de72f44a9d3 (HEAD -> rawhide, origin/rawhide, origin/HEAD) Author: Nikola Knazekova <nknazeko> Date: Fri Nov 1 17:07:29 2019 +0100 Added macro for timedatex to chat over dbus. Send and receive messages from timedatex over dbus. Fixed Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1766148 commit 56ac3f0ca28d656d7fc1e22f4f71782de978a75d (HEAD -> rawhide, origin/rawhide) Author: Nikola Knazekova <nknazeko> Date: Fri Nov 1 17:03:01 2019 +0100 Allow x_userdomain to dbus_chat with timedatex. Allow users in x_userdomain to send and receive messages from timedatex over dbus. Attribute x_userdomain: staff_t, sysadm_t, user_t
FEDORA-2019-e9d8868185 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 30. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2019-e9d8868185
selinux-policy-3.14.3-53.fc30 has been pushed to the Fedora 30 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-2019-e9d8868185
container-selinux-2.123.0-2.fc30, selinux-policy-3.14.3-53.fc30 has been pushed to the Fedora 30 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-2019-e9d8868185
container-selinux-2.123.0-2.fc30, selinux-policy-3.14.3-53.fc30 has been pushed to the Fedora 30 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.