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Bug 918140

Summary: semanage boolean -m BOOLEAN_NAME tracebacks
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Reporter: Milos Malik <mmalik>
Component: policycoreutilsAssignee: Daniel Walsh <dwalsh>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: Milos Malik <mmalik>
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Version: 7.0CC: mtruneck
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Description Milos Malik 2013-03-05 15:11:34 UTC 
Description of problem:
I'm not sure what "semanage boolean -m xen_use_nfs" should do, but it is a valid combination, based on the output of "semanage --help":
semanage boolean -{d|m} [--on|--off|-1|-0] [-N] -F boolean | boolean_file

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
policycoreutils-2.1.14-17.el7.x86_64
policycoreutils-devel-2.1.14-17.el7.x86_64
policycoreutils-sandbox-2.1.14-17.el7.x86_64
policycoreutils-python-2.1.14-17.el7.x86_64
policycoreutils-restorecond-2.1.14-17.el7.x86_64
policycoreutils-gui-2.1.14-17.el7.x86_64
policycoreutils-newrole-2.1.14-17.el7.x86_64

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
# semanage boolean -m xen_use_nfs
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/sbin/semanage", line 570, in <module>
    process_args(sys.argv[1:])
  File "/usr/sbin/semanage", line 448, in process_args
    OBJECT.modify(target, value, use_file)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/seobject.py", line 2080, in modify
    self.__mod(name, value)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/seobject.py", line 2049, in __mod
    if value.upper() in self.dict:
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'upper'
# echo $?
1
#

Actual results:
 * a traceback

Expected results:
 * either specified action is done or an error message "you forgot to specify ..." is displayed
Comment 1 Daniel Walsh 2013-03-05 16:20:59 UTC 
Fixed in policycoreutils-2.1.14-18.el7

It should require a value.
Comment 2 Milos Malik 2013-03-22 10:57:13 UTC 
Unfortunately, the fix introduced another bug. A boolean value is required on the command line even if a file is given as parameter.

# semanage boolean -l -F > booleans-values.txt
# ls -l booleans-values.txt 
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 5412 Mar 22 11:50 booleans-values.txt
# head booleans-values.txt  
ftp_home_dir=0
smartmon_3ware=0
xdm_sysadm_login=0
xen_use_nfs=0
mozilla_read_content=0
ssh_chroot_rw_homedirs=0
mount_anyfile=1
clamscan_read_user_content=0
tftp_anon_write=0
zoneminder_anon_write=0
# semanage boolean -m -F ./booleans-values.txt
/usr/sbin/semanage: Value Required [ --on | --off ]
# echo $?
1
#
Comment 3 Daniel Walsh 2013-07-11 22:27:05 UTC 
fixed in policycoreutils-2.1.14-63.el7
Comment 4 Milos Malik 2013-08-06 07:30:32 UTC 
A boolean file is mentioned as a positional argument, but semanage cannot work with it:

# semanage boolean --help 2>&1 | head -n 5
usage: semanage boolean [-h] [-n] [-N] [-s STORE] [  --extract  | --deleteall  | --list -C | --modify ( ( ( --on | --off ) ( boolean ) ) ) ) ]

positional arguments:
  boolean               boolean | boolean_file
# cat ./pokus 
nis_enabled=0
# semanage boolean -m -F ./pokus 
usage: semanage [-h]
                
                {import,export,login,user,port,interface,module,node,fcontext,boolean,permissive,dontaudit}
                ...
semanage: error: unrecognized arguments: -F
# semanage boolean -m ./pokus 
state option is needed
#

Previous versions of semanage recognized -F parameter, but current version does not.
Comment 5 Daniel Walsh 2013-08-06 12:57:08 UTC 
Fixed in policycoreutils-2.1.14-72.el7
Comment 8 Ludek Smid 2014-06-13 11:48:11 UTC 
This request was resolved in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.0.

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