Bug 325401 - sshd prohibited from following $HOME symlinks
Summary: sshd prohibited from following $HOME symlinks
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: selinux-policy-targeted
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Daniel Walsh
QA Contact: Ben Levenson
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2007-10-09 19:08 UTC by Frank Ch. Eigler
Modified: 2008-01-30 19:06 UTC (History)
0 users

Fixed In Version: Current
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2008-01-30 19:06:11 UTC
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Description Frank Ch. Eigler 2007-10-09 19:08:27 UTC
Description of problem:


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
0:3.0.8-18.fc8 

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. make a user's $HOME path be on NFS and defined partly by a symlink
(/home/foo/user where /home/foo links back to /home)
2. ssh into machine
3. notice "Permission denied" messages on ssh client, unavailability of ssh
pubkey authentication, and this ditty in /var/log/messages:

Oct  9 15:05:17 toidi kernel: audit(1191956717.679:196): avc:  denied  { read }
for  pid=8137 comm="sshd" name="cygnus" dev=0:17 ino=12
scontext=system_u:system_r:sshd_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023
tcontext=system_u:object_r:nfs_t:s0 tclass=lnk_file

Comment 1 Daniel Walsh 2007-10-09 19:55:03 UTC
Fixed in selinux-policy- 3.0.8-20

Comment 2 Daniel Walsh 2008-01-30 19:06:11 UTC
Bulk closing a old selinux policy bugs that were in the modified state.  If the
bug is still not fixed.  Please reopen.


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