Description of problem: Semanage is sending the wrong kind of audit events. When a user is assigned a new role, an AUDIT_ROLE_ASSIGN event should be sent. When a user has a role removed, an AUDIT_ROLE_REMOVE event should be sent. When a user's process changes roles, like during login, its supposed to issue an AUDIT_USER_ROLE_CHANGE event. Semanage is only sending AUDIT_USER_ROLE_CHANGE - which is the wrong kind of event. How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. semanage user --add -R staff_r test 2. ausearch -m ROLE_ASSIGN --start recent
Actually on further review, AUDIT_USER_ROLE_CHANGE is being sent by newrole, which is good. I guess semanage is simply missing assign/delete of roles to user accounts.
semanage login -a -s guest_u pwalsh Wrote this record to the audit log. time->Tue Jan 24 10:37:44 2012 type=USER_ROLE_CHANGE msg=audit(1327419464.300:60279): pid=0 uid=0 auid=3267 ses=7 subj=staff_u:unconfined_r:semanage_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 msg='op=add SELinux user mapping acct="pwalsh" old-seuser=? old-role=? old-range=? new-seuser=guest_u new-role=? new-range=? exe=/usr/sbin/semanage hostname=? addr=? terminal=pts/0 res=success'
That is the wrong kind of event. It should be AUDIT_ROLE_ASSIGN because you are adding something to the user's security attributes. Also, on delete I am not seeing the old role in the event: type=USER_ROLE_CHANGE msg=audit(1327347475.071:2739): user pid=11644 uid=0 auid=4325 ses=1 subj=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:semanage_t:s0 msg='op=delete SELinux user record acct="test" old-seuser=? old-role=? old-range=? new-seuser=? new-role=? new-range=? exe=/usr/sbin/semanage hostname=? addr=? terminal=pts/0 res=success' Not to mention I deleted a role and its telling me I deleted the user.
Correct me if I'm wrong: ROLE_ASSIGN event should be returned when I run "semanage user --add -R staff_r test". ROLE_REMOVE event should be returned when I run "semanage user --delete -R staff_r test". What kind of event should be returned when I run "semanage user --modify -R user_r test" ?
That is correct. For the time being, the modify should produce a ROLE_ASSIGN event. Someday in the future, we can make a ROLE_MODIFY event. But not right now.
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