Bug 500340 - SELinux prevents fprint from taking fingerprint
Summary: SELinux prevents fprint from taking fingerprint
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: selinux-policy
Version: 11
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Daniel Walsh
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Whiteboard:
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2009-05-12 11:01 UTC by Michael Monreal
Modified: 2009-11-18 13:09 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2009-11-18 13:09:36 UTC
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Attachments (Terms of Use)
Error 1 (2.53 KB, text/plain)
2009-05-12 11:01 UTC, Michael Monreal 		no flags Details
Error 2 (2.68 KB, text/plain)
2009-05-12 11:02 UTC, Michael Monreal 		no flags Details
Error 3 (2.48 KB, text/plain)
2009-05-12 11:02 UTC, Michael Monreal 		no flags Details
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Description Michael Monreal 2009-05-12 11:01:17 UTC 
Unlocking the screen with fingerprint auth does not work in GNOME. It produces three SELinux warnings (see attachments)
Comment 1 Michael Monreal 2009-05-12 11:01:56 UTC 
Created attachment 343561 [details]
Error 1
Comment 2 Michael Monreal 2009-05-12 11:02:09 UTC 
Created attachment 343562 [details]
Error 2
Comment 3 Michael Monreal 2009-05-12 11:02:24 UTC 
Created attachment 343563 [details]
Error 3
Comment 4 Daniel Walsh 2009-05-12 13:23:07 UTC 
If you update to the latest policy these should be taken care of.  But none of the SELinux denials are blocking anything.

fprintf is running in permissive mode which means that SELinux is reporting what it would have denied.  If you look at the AVC you will actually see success=yes, which means the access was not denied.

The Avcs are fixed in selinux-policy-3.6.12-34.fc11.noarch

But that does not mean the fprintd will work for you :^(
Comment 5 Michael Monreal 2009-05-12 13:50:00 UTC 
Ok, after installing the newest package from koji and having a closer look I found the finger print auth actually works, but not all the time... :/

I still get the "sys_ptrace" (Error 3 above) message btw (the other two are gone now)
Comment 6 Bug Zapper 2009-06-09 15:40:48 UTC 
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 11 development cycle.
Changing version to '11'.

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