Bug 597318 - A freshly installed Fedora 13 box with NIS authentication selected doesn't set allow_ypbind in SELinux
Summary: A freshly installed Fedora 13 box with NIS authentication selected doesn't se...
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
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Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: ypbind
Version: 13
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Honza Horak
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2010-05-28 16:07 UTC by Jonathan Abbey
Modified: 2011-06-02 13:37 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2011-06-02 13:37:24 UTC
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Description Jonathan Abbey 2010-05-28 16:07:40 UTC
Description of problem:

I installed Fedora 13 from the release disc, and chose NIS authentication in the
firstboot configurator.

Unfortunately, it seems that choosing NIS authentication in the firstboot configurator is not enough to tell Fedora 13 to turn on the 'allow_ypbind' SELinux boolean.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

Fedora 13, ypbind-1.31.2.fc13, selinux-policy-3.7.19.15.fc13

How reproducible:

Install Fedora 13, select NIS user authentication.  Wait for things to explode.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install Fedora 13
2. Select NIS user authentication
3. Try and fail to login, notice allow_ypbind is not enabled.
  
Actual results:

Breakage.  Seemingly random NIS failures at login time.. though sometimes login does succeed despite allow_ypbind not being enabled.

Expected results:

Have allow_ypbind enabled in the SELinux boolean set when NIS authentication is chosen at install time.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Karel Klíč 2010-06-01 09:56:02 UTC
Reassigning to firstboot, as ypbind itself cannot set allow_ypbind SELinux boolean.

Maybe it should be reassigned to authconfig-gtk (system-config-authentication), I am not sure who should set allow_ypbind.

Comment 2 Karel Klíč 2010-06-01 12:12:00 UTC
Assigning back, sorry, it's mine. The allow_ypbind is set in the ypbind init script.

Comment 3 Karel Klíč 2010-06-01 12:30:10 UTC
Hi Jonathan,
can you please uncomment the following lines in /etc/init.d/ypbind.init, functions selinux_on and selinux_off:
#echo $"Turning on allow_ypbind SELinux boolean"
#echo $"Turning off allow_ypbind SELinux boolean"

and check if "Turning on allow_ypbind..." appears when ypbind is started during boot.

Comment 4 Edgar Hoch 2010-07-17 15:06:10 UTC
With packages ypbind-1.31-3.fc13 (installed by yum update) I see that allow_ypbind is set on after reboot with ypbind configured to start on boot.

Comment 5 Fedora Admin XMLRPC Client 2011-03-09 13:53:34 UTC
This package has changed ownership in the Fedora Package Database.  Reassigning to the new owner of this component.

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Comment 7 Edgar Hoch 2011-06-02 13:30:37 UTC
(In reply to comment #4)
> With packages ypbind-1.31-3.fc13 (installed by yum update) I see that
> allow_ypbind is set on after reboot with ypbind configured to start on boot.

I think this bug can be closed.

Comment 8 Honza Horak 2011-06-02 13:37:24 UTC
Closing because of comment #7 and it works for me too.


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