Description of problem:SELinux is preventing gdm from reading my $HOME/.Xdefaults file & properly initializing my terminal windows (where I do about 98% of my work). I end up w/ illegible fonts, undesired scrolling behavior, etc. Yuk ....


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):most recent as of this A.M.


How reproducible:create an .XDefaults file & logout & back in. You should see messages in your /var/log/messages file saying SELinux won't let gdm-simple-slave access your .XDefaults file.


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Expected results: should be no sweat. This worked AOK under FC9, I just upgraded to FC11 this A.M. using preupgrade (hopefully to avoid issues like this :-/) ....


Additional info:from my messages file:

Jun 13 13:12:55 athloncube setroubleshoot: SELinux is preventing the gdm-simple-slav from using potentially mislabeled files (.Xdefaults). For complete SELinux messages. run sealert -l 0a3c37e5-2811-4aee-88ea-6eec7d8ce70f
Jun 13 13:12:56 athloncube setroubleshoot: SELinux is preventing the gdm-simple-slav from using potentially mislabeled files (.Xdefaults). For complete SELinux messages. run sealert -l 0a3c37e5-2811-4aee-88ea-6eec7d8ce70f
Jun 13 13:12:56 athloncube setroubleshoot: SELinux is preventing the gdm-simple-slav from using potentially mislabeled files (.Xdefaults). For complete SELinux messages. run sealert -l 0a3c37e5-2811-4aee-88ea-6eec7d8ce70f
Jun 13 13:12:57 athloncube setroubleshoot: SELinux is preventing the gdm-simple-slav from using potentially mislabeled files (.Xdefaults). For complete SELinux messages. run sealert -l 0a3c37e5-2811-4aee-88ea-6eec7d8ce70f
Jun 13 13:12:57 athloncube setroubleshoot: SELinux is preventing the gdm-simple-slav from using potentially mislabeled files (.Xdefaults). For complete SELinux messages. run sealert -l 0a3c37e5-2811-4aee-88ea-6eec7d8ce70f
Jun 13 13:12:57 athloncube setroubleshoot: SELinux is preventing the gdm-simple-slav from using potentially mislabeled files (.Xdefaults). For complete SELinux messages. run sealert -l 0a3c37e5-2811-4aee-88ea-6eec7d8ce70f
Jun 13 13:12:58 athloncube setroubleshoot: SELinux is preventing the gdm-simple-slav from using potentially mislabeled files (.Xdefaults). For complete SELinux messages. run sealert -l 0a3c37e5-2811-4aee-88ea-6eec7d8ce70f

from the sealert command:

[root@athloncube:/etc, Sat Jun 13, 05:40 PM] 1034 # sealert -l 0a3c37e5-2811-4aee-88ea-6eec7d8ce70f

Summary:

SELinux is preventing the gdm-simple-slav from using potentially mislabeled
files (.Xdefaults).

Detailed Description:

SELinux has denied gdm-simple-slav access to potentially mislabeled file(s)
(.Xdefaults). This means that SELinux will not allow gdm-simple-slav to use
these files. It is common for users to edit files in their home directory or tmp
directories and then move (mv) them to system directories. The problem is that
the files end up with the wrong file context which confined applications are not
allowed to access.

Allowing Access:

If you want gdm-simple-slav to access this files, you need to relabel them using
restorecon -v '.Xdefaults'. You might want to relabel the entire directory using
restorecon -R -v ''.

Additional Information:

Source Context                system_u:system_r:xdm_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023
Target Context                unconfined_u:object_r:admin_home_t:s0
Target Objects                .Xdefaults [ file ]
Source                        gdm-simple-slav
Source Path                   /usr/libexec/gdm-simple-slave
Port                          <Unknown>
Host                          athloncube.cfd.com
Source RPM Packages           gdm-2.26.1-10.fc11
Target RPM Packages           
Policy RPM                    selinux-policy-3.6.12-39.fc11
Selinux Enabled               True
Policy Type                   targeted
MLS Enabled                   True
Enforcing Mode                Enforcing
Plugin Name                   home_tmp_bad_labels
Host Name                     athloncube.cfd.com
Platform                      Linux athloncube.cfd.com 2.6.29.4-167.fc11.x86_64
                              #1 SMP Wed May 27 17:27:08 EDT 2009 x86_64 x86_64
Alert Count                   88
First Seen                    Sat Jun 13 09:59:04 2009
Last Seen                     Sat Jun 13 13:12:42 2009
Local ID                      0a3c37e5-2811-4aee-88ea-6eec7d8ce70f
Line Numbers                  

Raw Audit Messages            

node=athloncube.cfd.com type=AVC msg=audit(1244916762.444:13): avc:  denied  { read } for  pid=1938 comm="gdm-simple-slav" name=".Xdefaults" dev=dm-0 ino=1844612 scontext=system_u:system_r:xdm_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 tcontext=unconfined_u:object_r:admin_home_t:s0 tclass=file

node=athloncube.cfd.com type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1244916762.444:13): arch=c000003e syscall=2 success=no exit=-13 a0=7fffb4fd3a30 a1=0 a2=fef a3=fe items=0 ppid=1868 pid=1938 auid=4294967295 uid=0 gid=0 euid=0 suid=0 fsuid=0 egid=0 sgid=0 fsgid=0 tty=(none) ses=4294967295 comm="gdm-simple-slav" exe="/usr/libexec/gdm-simple-slave" subj=system_u:system_r:xdm_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 key=(null)



[root@athloncube:/etc, Sat Jun 13, 05:54 PM] 1035 #