Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 516847
Shouldn't poke at /root/.config/user-dirs.dirs
Last modified: 2010-12-05 01:37:46 EST
Causes SELinux warnings for no reason. Need to find a way to disable that one-time check in glib. Summary: SELinux is preventing the polkitd-1 from using potentially mislabeled files (/root/.config/user-dirs.dirs). Detailed Description: [SELinux is in permissive mode, the operation would have been denied but was permitted due to permissive mode.] SELinux has denied polkitd-1 access to potentially mislabeled file(s) (/root/.config/user-dirs.dirs). This means that SELinux will not allow polkitd-1 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 polkitd-1 to access this files, you need to relabel them using restorecon -v '/root/.config/user-dirs.dirs'. You might want to relabel the entire directory using restorecon -R -v '/root/.config'. Additional Information: Source Context system_u:system_r:polkit_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 Target Context unconfined_u:object_r:admin_home_t:s0 Target Objects /root/.config/user-dirs.dirs [ file ] Source polkitd-1 Source Path /usr/libexec/polkitd-1 Port <Unknown> Host snoogens.fab.redhat.com Source RPM Packages polkit-0.92-3.fc12 Target RPM Packages Policy RPM selinux-policy-3.6.12-69.fc11 Selinux Enabled True Policy Type targeted MLS Enabled True Enforcing Mode Permissive Plugin Name home_tmp_bad_labels Host Name snoogens.fab.redhat.com Platform Linux snoogens.fab.redhat.com 2.6.31-0.125.rc5.git2.fc12.i686 #1 SMP Tue Aug 4 03:18:57 EDT 2009 i686 i686 Alert Count 57 First Seen Mon 06 Jul 2009 16:27:34 BST Last Seen Mon 10 Aug 2009 10:17:02 BST Local ID 9c76c57b-74ab-4f59-ac01-9a4a4c32ab97 Line Numbers Raw Audit Messages node=snoogens.fab.redhat.com type=AVC msg=audit(1249895822.929:40): avc: denied { read } for pid=1640 comm="polkitd-1" name="user-dirs.dirs" dev=sda2 ino=316339 scontext=system_u:system_r:polkit_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 tcontext=unconfined_u:object_r:admin_home_t:s0 tclass=file node=snoogens.fab.redhat.com type=AVC msg=audit(1249895822.929:40): avc: denied { open } for pid=1640 comm="polkitd-1" name="user-dirs.dirs" dev=sda2 ino=316339 scontext=system_u:system_r:polkit_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 tcontext=unconfined_u:object_r:admin_home_t:s0 tclass=file node=snoogens.fab.redhat.com type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1249895822.929:40): arch=40000003 syscall=5 success=yes exit=7 a0=8259148 a1=8000 a2=0 a3=8255d58 items=0 ppid=1 pid=1640 auid=4294967295 uid=0 gid=0 euid=0 suid=0 fsuid=0 egid=0 sgid=0 fsgid=0 tty=(none) ses=4294967295 comm="polkitd-1" exe="/usr/libexec/polkitd-1" subj=system_u:system_r:polkit_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 key=(null)
One way to avoid this is to set XDG_CONFIG_HOME to something harmless, like /var/lib/polkit. glib tries to read $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/user-dirs.dirs
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 12 development cycle. Changing version to '12'. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
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