Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 242556
SELinux blocking genhomedircon
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:12:06 EST
Description of problem: The complete message from setroubleshoot follows: Summary SELinux is preventing genhomedircon (semanage_t) "write" to site-packages (lib_t). Detailed Description SELinux denied access requested by genhomedircon. It is not expected that this access is required by genhomedircon and this access may signal an intrusion attempt. It is also possible that the specific version or configuration of the application is causing it to require additional access. Allowing Access Sometimes labeling problems can cause SELinux denials. You could try to restore the default system file context for site-packages, restorecon -v site-packages If this does not work, there is currently no automatic way to allow this access. Instead, you can generate a local policy module to allow this access - see http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/selinux-faq-fc5/#id2961385 Or you can disable SELinux protection altogether. Disabling SELinux protection is not recommended. Please file a http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/enter_bug.cgi against this package. Additional Information Source Context system_u:system_r:semanage_t Target Context system_u:object_r:lib_t Target Objects site-packages [ dir ] Affected RPM Packages Policy RPM selinux-policy-2.6.4-8.fc7 Selinux Enabled True Policy Type targeted MLS Enabled True Enforcing Mode Enforcing Plugin Name plugins.catchall_file Host Name localhost.localdomain Platform Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.21-1.3194.fc7 #1 SMP Wed May 23 22:35:01 EDT 2007 i686 i686 Alert Count 4 First Seen Mon 04 Jun 2007 12:46:35 AM CEST Last Seen Mon 04 Jun 2007 01:05:18 AM CEST Local ID 0f27fab2-30de-47b2-9c70-30d6e22c4a3a Line Numbers Raw Audit Messages avc: denied { write } for comm="genhomedircon" dev=dm-0 egid=0 euid=0 exe="/usr/bin/python" exit=-13 fsgid=0 fsuid=0 gid=0 items=0 name="site- packages" pid=7510 scontext=system_u:system_r:semanage_t:s0 sgid=0 subj=system_u:system_r:semanage_t:s0 suid=0 tclass=dir tcontext=system_u:object_r:lib_t:s0 tty=(none) uid=0 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): policycoreutils-2.0.16-2.fc7 How reproducible: Don't know, the bug selinux bug report pops up after logging in everytime for me. I only use the fedora and livna repositoies at the time being. (Livna for Nvidia and audio/video)
This is strange. genhomedircon should not be trying to write to a lib_t directory. This looks like some python object is not precreated and semanage is trying to create it. You can tell sealert to ignore the avc message. Just click the filter.