Bug 694753 - Selinux is preventing xdm from writing to xdm.log
Summary: Selinux is preventing xdm from writing to xdm.log
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: xorg-x11-xdm
Version: 15
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
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Assignee: X/OpenGL Maintenance List
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-04-08 09:50 UTC by Peter Lemenkov
Modified: 2011-04-11 17:52 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2011-04-11 17:52:44 UTC
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Description Peter Lemenkov 2011-04-08 09:50:00 UTC
type=1400 audit(1302255128.965:6): avc:  denied  { write } for  pid=1051 comm="xdm" name="xdm.log" dev=sda3 ino=146296 scontext=system_u:system_r:xdm_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 tcontext=system_u:object_r:var_log_t:s0 tclass=file


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Here is a custom selinux policy:

[root@work ~]# cat xdm.te 

module xdm 1.0;

require {
	type var_log_t;
	type xdm_t;
	class file write;
}

#============= xdm_t ==============
allow xdm_t var_log_t:file write;
[root@work ~]#

Comment 1 Daniel Walsh 2011-04-08 18:31:56 UTC
restorecon -R -v /var/log/xdm.log is a much better solution.

Whereever that is located.

Comment 2 Peter Lemenkov 2011-04-08 19:52:35 UTC
Unfortuanteluy it doesn't work. Here is what I've got after reboot:

[root@work ~]# dmesg | grep xdm
[   29.942053] type=1400 audit(1302292067.301:6): avc:  denied  { write } for  pid=1025 comm="xdm" name="xdm.log" dev=sda3 ino=146296 scontext=system_u:system_r:xdm_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 tcontext=system_u:object_r:var_log_t:s0 tclass=file
[root@work ~]#

Perhaps it has something with lates relocation of runtime files into /run.

Comment 3 Daniel Walsh 2011-04-08 20:13:42 UTC
Where is the xdm.log file located?

Comment 4 Daniel Walsh 2011-04-08 20:14:42 UTC
Is there something in the startup that is creating it other then xdm?

An init script or a xinit script?

Comment 5 Peter Lemenkov 2011-04-08 20:23:38 UTC
(In reply to comment #3)
> Where is the xdm.log file located?

/var/log/xdm.log

work ~: cat /etc/mtab | grep /var
/dev/sda3 /var ext3 rw,seclabel,noatime,nodiratime,errors=continue,user_xattr,acl,barrier=0,data=ordered 0 0
tmpfs /var/run tmpfs rw,seclabel,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,mode=755 0 0
tmpfs /var/lock tmpfs rw,seclabel,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,mode=755 0 0
sunrpc /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs rpc_pipefs rw,relatime 0 0
work ~: 


(In reply to comment #4)
> Is there something in the startup that is creating it other then xdm?
> 
> An init script or a xinit script?

Nope. I didn't even log in (from physical console) yet

work ~: ps axf
...
 1025 ?        Ss     0:00 /usr/bin/xdm -nodaemon
 1061 tty7     Ss+    0:00  \_ /usr/bin/X :0 -auth /var/lib/xdm/authdir/authfiles/A:0-KfnmzN
 1065 ?        Ss     0:00  \_ -:0    
...
work ~: 

No other X-clients were started - just xdm.

Comment 6 Daniel Walsh 2011-04-11 17:29:01 UTC
ps -axfZ should show xdm running as xdm_t. there are rules in policy that says xdm_t creating a file in directory labeled var_log_t will create it labeled xdm_log_t.  But you already have a file labeled var_log_t, which means something else created the log file before xdm started.  Is there some mention of xdm.log in the scripts that start xdm?

Comment 7 Peter Lemenkov 2011-04-11 17:52:44 UTC
(In reply to comment #6)
> ps -axfZ should show xdm running as xdm_t. there are rules in policy that says
> xdm_t creating a file in directory labeled var_log_t will create it labeled
> xdm_log_t.  But you already have a file labeled var_log_t, which means
> something else created the log file before xdm started.  Is there some mention
> of xdm.log in the scripts that start xdm?

Daniel, I really sorry for the noise - I just found that this is completely my mistake.

I'm sure this ticket must be closed now


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