Description of problem:

When trying to finger a user the finger program is blocked by SElinux from accessing nslcd cache data.


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

finger-0.17-39.el6.x86_64
finger-server-0.17-39.el6.x86_64


How reproducible:

All RHEL 6 servers I've tried this on.


Steps to Reproduce:
1. install finger & finger-server
2. finger user@localhost  (where user is not in /etc/passwd but from ldap or something)
  
Actual results:
# finger bdwheele
finger: bdwheele: no such user.
# tail /var/log/messages
...
Oct 27 10:40:30 testhost setroubleshoot: SELinux is preventing /usr/bin/finger "search" access on /var/run/nslcd. For complete SELinux messages. run sealert -l 7bce72f5-c7c8-4f5b-8f78-4efc75bbc49b
# sealert -l 7bce72f5-c7c8-4f5b-8f78-4efc75bbc49b

Summary:

SELinux is preventing /usr/bin/finger "search" access on /var/run/nslcd.

Detailed Description:

SELinux denied access requested by finger. It is not expected that this access
is required by finger and this access may signal an intrusion attempt. It is
also possible that the specific version or configuration of the application is
causing it to require additional access.

Allowing Access:

You can generate a local policy module to allow this access - see FAQ
(http://docs.fedoraproject.org/selinux-faq-fc5/#id2961385) Please file a bug
report.

Additional Information:

Source Context                unconfined_u:system_r:fingerd_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023
Target Context                system_u:object_r:nslcd_var_run_t:s0
Target Objects                /var/run/nslcd [ dir ]
Source                        finger
Source Path                   /usr/bin/finger
Port                          <Unknown>
Host                          testhost
Source RPM Packages           finger-0.17-39.el6
Target RPM Packages           nss-pam-ldapd-0.7.5-7.el6
Policy RPM                    selinux-policy-3.7.19-93.el6_1.7
Selinux Enabled               True
Policy Type                   targeted
Enforcing Mode                Enforcing
Plugin Name                   catchall
Host Name                     testhost
Platform                      Linux testhost
                              2.6.32-71.24.1.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Sat Mar 26
                              16:05:19 EDT 2011 x86_64 x86_64
Alert Count                   15
First Seen                    Thu Oct 27 09:22:11 2011
Last Seen                     Thu Oct 27 10:40:29 2011
Local ID                      7bce72f5-c7c8-4f5b-8f78-4efc75bbc49b
Line Numbers                  

Raw Audit Messages            

node=testhost type=AVC msg=audit(1319726429.350:10215950): avc:  denied  { search } for  pid=22288 comm="finger" name="nslcd" dev=dm-0 ino=656057 scontext=unconfined_u:system_r:fingerd_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 tcontext=system_u:object_r:nslcd_var_run_t:s0 tclass=dir

node=testhost type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1319726429.350:10215950): arch=c000003e syscall=42 success=no exit=-13 a0=4 a1=7fffb581f800 a2=6e a3=58 items=0 ppid=26447 pid=22288 auid=11907 uid=99 gid=99 euid=99 suid=99 fsuid=99 egid=99 sgid=99 fsgid=99 tty=(none) ses=464562 comm="finger" exe="/usr/bin/finger" subj=unconfined_u:system_r:fingerd_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 key=(null)


Expected results:
# finger bdwheele
Login: bdwheele       			Name: Brian Wheeler
Directory: /home/bdwheele           	Shell: /bin/bash
On since Wed Oct 26 14:24 (EDT) on pts/0 from somewhere
Mail forwarded to bdwheele
No mail.
No Plan.


Additional info:

The above fingering worked on RHEL5 with nslcd active.