From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.8.1.13) Gecko/20080325 Fedora/2.0.0.13-1.fc8 Firefox/2.0.0.13 Description of problem: This arose when I started my computer, on which I had done a 'yum update' just before the last shutdown. It was displaying the wrong time, so I opened the kde date and time panel. I got an SELinux message, whose summary is the summary of this bug report. The more detailed description in the setroubleshoot browser is as follows: SELinux denied access requested by kdm_greet. It is not expected that this access is required by kdm_greet 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. The following is from "Additional Information" in the setroubleshoot browser: Source Context: system_u:system_r:xdm_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023Target Context: system_u:object_r:var_lib_t:s0Target Objects: ./kdm [ dir ]Source: kdm_greetSource Path: /usr/bin/kdm_greetPort: <Unknown>Host: localhost.localdomainSource RPM Packages: kdebase-3.5.9-7.fc8Target RPM Packages: Policy RPM: selinux-policy-3.0.8-95.fc8Selinux Enabled: TruePolicy Type: targetedMLS Enabled: TrueEnforcing Mode: EnforcingPlugin Name: catchall_fileHost Name: localhost.localdomainPlatform: Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.24.4-64.fc8 #1 SMP Sat Mar 29 09:15:49 EDT 2008 x86_64 x86_64Alert Count: 3First Seen: Thu 20 Mar 2008 11:23:48 PM EDTLast Seen: Fri 11 Apr 2008 12:05:56 PM EDTLocal ID: 428a857d-85a5-4f99-891c-ba61a96ad31fLine Numbers: Raw Audit Messages :host=localhost.localdomain type=AVC msg=audit(1207929956.448:12): avc: denied { create } for pid=2139 comm="kdm_greet" name="kdm" scontext=system_u:system_r:xdm_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 tcontext=system_u:object_r:var_lib_t:s0 tclass=dir host=localhost.localdomain type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1207929956.448:12): arch=c000003e syscall=83 success=no exit=-13 a0=6b29c0 a1=1ed a2=ffffffff a3=6b221a items=0 ppid=2135 pid=2139 auid=4294967295 uid=0 gid=0 euid=0 suid=0 fsuid=0 egid=0 sgid=0 fsgid=0 tty=(none) comm="kdm_greet" exe="/usr/bin/kdm_greet" subj=system_u:system_r:xdm_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 key=(null) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): selinux-policy-3.0.8-95.fc8 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Open KDE date and time utility 2.Go to NTP tab. 3.Click OK Actual Results: Message from SELinux as described above. The message also tells me to restorecon -v './kdm' but that directory does not exist. Expected Results: It should have updated the time on my computer through NTP. Additional info:
/var/lib/kdm should be owned and installed by the kde packages and should be created on install. I will add a transition rule to allow policy to create it. Fixed in selinux-policy-3.0.8-99.fc8 But the kde spec should be fixed.
kdebase %changelog * Mon Apr 14 2008 Rex Dieter <rdieter> - 3.5.9-11 - create/own: /var/lib/kdm (#442081)
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Is this still an issue with the current updates? It should have been fixed by kdebase-3.5.9-11.fc8.
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