Bug 615838 – Unable to execute xauth when using ssh -Y

Bug 615838 - Unable to execute xauth when using ssh -Y

Summary:	Unable to execute xauth when using ssh -Y

Status:	CLOSED INSUFFICIENT_DATA

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Product:	Fedora
Classification:	Fedora
Component:	selinux-policy (Show other bugs)
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Version:	12
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	low Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Daniel Walsh
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Reported:	2010-07-19 00:26 EDT by Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams
Modified:	2010-08-20 06:11 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	2010-08-20 06:11:30 EDT
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Description Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams 2010-07-19 00:26:51 EDT

Description of problem:
When using ssh -Y, SELinux prevents xauth from being executed on the server.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
selinux-policy-(none):3.6.32-118.fc12.noarch

How reproducible:
Every time

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Try to use ssh -Y to ssh into a F12 machine
  
Actual results:
"sh: /usr/bin/xauth: Permission denied"

type=SELINUX_ERR msg=audit(1279513152.238:190): security_compute_sid:  invalid context system_u:system_r:xauth_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 for scontext=system_u:system_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 tcontext=system_u:object_r:xauth_exec_t:s0 tclass=process

Expected results:
Should work

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Comment 1 Miroslav Grepl 2010-07-19 09:28:20 EDT

Could you add your output of the following command

ps -eZ | grep sshd

on F12 machine.

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