Bug 216807 – can't chcon files as root

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Bug 216807 - can't chcon files as root

Summary:	can't chcon files as root

Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG

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Product:	Fedora
Classification:	Fedora
Component:	selinux-policy (Show other bugs)
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Version:	6
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Daniel Walsh
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Reported:	2006-11-21 20:39 EST by Evan Klitzke
Modified:	2007-11-30 17:11 EST (History)
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Last Closed:	2006-12-13 16:09:29 EST
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Description Evan Klitzke 2006-11-21 20:39:00 EST

I am trying to change the security context of a package I manually installed. I
cannot become adm_r by using newrole, but I assume that this is not necessary
because that package is in Extras and I log into root with su -. I cannot find
any information in the Fedora documentation to suggest that I need to change
roles to chcon files as root, so I assume this behavior is a bug.

Here is the problem I have:
[root@localhost ~]# chcon -t procmail_t /usr/local/var/dspam/data/evan/evan.lock
chcon: failed to change context of /usr/local/var/dspam/data/evan/evan.lock to
user_u:object_r:procmail_t: Permission denied

And the AVC message is:

avc: denied { relabelto } for comm='"chcon"' dev='hda1' egid='0' euid='0'
exe='"/usr/bin/chcon"' exit='-13' fsgid='0' fsuid='0' gid='0' items='0'
name='"evan.lock"' pid='11151' scontext=user_u:system_r:unconfined_t:s0 sgid='0'
subj='user_u:system_r:unconfined_t:s0' suid='0' tclass='file'
tcontext=user_u:object_r:procmail_t:s0 tty='pts0' uid='0'

Comment 1 Tim Waugh 2006-12-13 06:51:13 EST

Confirmed.

selinux-policy-targeted-2.4.6-1.fc6

touch /tmp/foo
chcon -t procmail_t /tmp/foo

Comment 2 Daniel Walsh 2006-12-13 16:09:29 EST

procmail_t is a domain context not a file_context.  You can only chcon file
contexts.

Please ask questions on fedora-selinux-list

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