Bug 759574 - collectd causes denial: system_u system_u (capability)
Summary: collectd causes denial: system_u system_u (capability)
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: collectd
Version: 16
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Assignee: Alan Pevec (Fedora)
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-12-02 18:00 UTC by Jeff Raber
Modified: 2013-02-13 08:56 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2013-02-13 08:56:22 UTC
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Description Jeff Raber 2011-12-02 18:00:04 UTC
collectd causes denial: system_u system_u (capability)

These denials are not reported by the SELinux Troubleshooter.  I can see them listed in /var/log/messages.  This denial occurs every 5 seconds (17280 times per day).

From /var/log/messages:

avc:  denied  { dac_read_search } for  pid=1085 comm="collectd" capability=2  scontext=system_u:system_r:collectd_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:system_r:collectd_t:s0 tclass=capability 

avc:  denied  { dac_override } for  pid=1085 comm="collectd" capability=1  scontext=system_u:system_r:collectd_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:system_r:collectd_t:s0 tclass=capability

Comment 1 Daniel Walsh 2011-12-02 18:23:49 UTC
This means that collectd tried to read a file that root does not have permissions to access.

If you turn on full auditing with this command

# auditctl -w /etc/shadow -p w

Then try to get the AVC to happen again, we should get the path of what the system is complaining about.

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