Bug 722571 - SELinux is preventing /usr/bin/xdm from 'write' accesses on the file /var/log/xdm.log.
Summary: SELinux is preventing /usr/bin/xdm from 'write' accesses on the file /var/log...
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: selinux-policy
Version: rawhide
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
unspecified
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Miroslav Grepl
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
URL:
Whiteboard: setroubleshoot_trace_hash:628c49aa5b0...
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-07-15 17:05 UTC by Horst H. von Brand
Modified: 2011-07-15 17:34 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2011-07-15 17:34:43 UTC
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Description Horst H. von Brand 2011-07-15 17:05:49 UTC
SELinux is preventing /usr/bin/xdm from 'write' accesses on the file /var/log/xdm.log.

*****  Plugin catchall (100. confidence) suggests  ***************************

If you believe that xdm should be allowed write access on the xdm.log file by default.
Then you should report this as a bug.
You can generate a local policy module to allow this access.
Do
allow this access for now by executing:
# grep xdm /var/log/audit/audit.log | audit2allow -M mypol
# semodule -i mypol.pp

Additional Information:
Source Context                system_u:system_r:xdm_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023
Target Context                system_u:object_r:var_log_t:s0
Target Objects                /var/log/xdm.log [ file ]
Source                        xdm
Source Path                   /usr/bin/xdm
Port                          <Unknown>
Host                          (removed)
Source RPM Packages           xorg-x11-xdm-1.1.10-1.fc16
Target RPM Packages           
Policy RPM                    selinux-policy-3.9.16-29.1.fc16
Selinux Enabled               True
Policy Type                   targeted
Enforcing Mode                Enforcing
Host Name                     (removed)
Platform                      Linux (removed)
                              3.0-0.rc4.git0.2.fc16.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Jun 22
                              16:27:16 UTC 2011 x86_64 x86_64
Alert Count                   7
First Seen                    Fri 27 May 2011 12:54:31 PM CLT
Last Seen                     Fri 01 Jul 2011 07:22:02 AM CLT
Local ID                      9c3af9b9-1fce-49c9-b177-dd6550fa1507

Raw Audit Messages
type=AVC msg=audit(1309519322.601:39): avc:  denied  { write } for  pid=1115 comm="xdm" name="xdm.log" dev=dm-4 ino=1572995 scontext=system_u:system_r:xdm_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 tcontext=system_u:object_r:var_log_t:s0 tclass=file


type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1309519322.601:39): arch=x86_64 syscall=creat success=no exit=EACCES a0=23c5100 a1=1b6 a2=f000 a3=7fffe05d86f0 items=0 ppid=1 pid=1115 auid=4294967295 uid=0 gid=0 euid=0 suid=0 fsuid=0 egid=0 sgid=0 fsgid=0 tty=(none) ses=4294967295 comm=xdm exe=/usr/bin/xdm subj=system_u:system_r:xdm_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 key=(null)

Hash: xdm,xdm_t,var_log_t,file,write

audit2allow

#============= xdm_t ==============
allow xdm_t var_log_t:file write;

audit2allow -R

#============= xdm_t ==============
allow xdm_t var_log_t:file write;

Comment 1 Dominick Grift 2011-07-15 17:15:09 UTC
Can you give the output of the following command:

find /var/log -inum 1572995

By the way: xdm (and any other desktop manager) should probably be opening log files for append only...

Comment 2 Dominick Grift 2011-07-15 17:20:45 UTC
file context spec for /var/log/xdm.log was missing. added here:

http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/?p=selinux-policy.git;a=commitdiff;h=4f8ee1f91cae999b74a4234fc145f614bd2e6f2b


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