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Bug 955769 - useradd not assigning correct SELinux user to contexts of home directory files
Summary: useradd not assigning correct SELinux user to contexts of home directory files
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Classification: Red Hat
Component: shadow-utils
Version: 6.6
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
unspecified
high
Target Milestone: rc
: ---
Assignee: Tomas Mraz
QA Contact: Dalibor Pospíšil
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2013-04-23 18:40 UTC by Brandon
Modified: 2014-10-14 07:16 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

Fixed In Version: shadow-utils-4.1.4.2-19.el6
Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Cause: The useradd assigned the SELinux user to the new user being created after creating and populating the home directory of the user. Consequence: The SELinux contexts of the home directory files were incorrect. Fix: The SELinux user is assigned to the newly created user before populating the home directory. Result: The SELinux contexts on the home directory files for newly created users are now correct.
Clone Of:
: 1077809 1134450 (view as bug list)
Environment:
Last Closed: 2014-10-14 07:16:47 UTC
Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:

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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2014:1522 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE shadow-utils bug fix update 2014-10-14 01:22:10 UTC

Description Brandon 2013-04-23 18:40:28 UTC 
Description of problem:
Users created using useradd -Z are not given the correct user in the context of their home directory

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
shadow-utils-4.1.4.2-13.el6.x86_64
possibly,
policycoreutils-python-2.0.8-19.30.el6_64

How reproducible:
Easily

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Switch to root
2.useradd -m testuser -Z staff_u
3.ls -Z /home/testuser 
  
Actual results:
drwx------. testuser testuser unconfined_u:object_r:user_home_dir_t:s0 .
drwxr-xr-x. root     root     system_u:object_r:home_root_t:s0 ..
-rw-r--r--. testuser testuser unconfined_u:object_r:user_home_t:s0 .bash_logout
-rw-r--r--. testuser testuser unconfined_u:object_r:user_home_t:s0 .bash_profile
-rw-r--r--. testuser testuser unconfined_u:object_r:user_home_t:s0 .bashrc
-rw-r--r--. testuser testuser unconfined_u:object_r:user_home_t:s0 .emacs
drwxr-xr-x. testuser testuser unconfined_u:object_r:gnome_home_t:s0 .gnome2
drwxr-xr-x. testuser testuser unconfined_u:object_r:mozilla_home_t:s0 .mozilla

Expected results:
ls -Za /home/testuser
drwx------. testuser testuser staff_u:object_r:user_home_dir_t:s0 .
drwxr-xr-x. root     root     system_u:object_r:home_root_t:s0 ..
-rw-r--r--. testuser testuser staff_u:object_r:user_home_t:s0 .bash_logout
-rw-r--r--. testuser testuser staff_u:object_r:user_home_t:s0 .bash_profile
-rw-r--r--. testuser testuser staff_u:object_r:user_home_t:s0 .bashrc
-rw-r--r--. testuser testuser staff_u:object_r:user_home_t:s0 .emacs
drwxr-xr-x. testuser testuser staff_u:object_r:gnome_home_t:s0 .gnome2
drwxr-xr-x. testuser testuser staff_u:object_r:mozilla_home_t:s0 .mozilla

Additional info:
If you run restorecon, the context is updated correctly
[root@owf SPECS]# restorecon -RF /home/testuser
[root@owf SPECS]# ls -Za /home/testuser
drwx------. testuser testuser staff_u:object_r:user_home_dir_t:s0 .
drwxr-xr-x. root     root     system_u:object_r:home_root_t:s0 ..
-rw-r--r--. testuser testuser staff_u:object_r:user_home_t:s0  .bash_logout
-rw-r--r--. testuser testuser staff_u:object_r:user_home_t:s0  .bash_profile
-rw-r--r--. testuser testuser staff_u:object_r:user_home_t:s0  .bashrc
-rw-r--r--. testuser testuser staff_u:object_r:user_home_t:s0  .emacs
drwxr-xr-x. testuser testuser staff_u:object_r:gnome_home_t:s0 .gnome2
drwxr-xr-x. testuser testuser staff_u:object_r:mozilla_home_t:s0 .mozilla

I've tested this on F18 and it's there as well. Looking at the code in useradd.c what is happening is that all of the files in a users home directories are written out before the SELinux user mappings are updated. So the system is using the default mapping of unconfined_u to write it out. There seem to be 2 quick fixes
1) Run restorecon -RF following the calls to semanage in useradd.c
2) Update semanage to have a flag to check if files need to be relabeled after adding a login mapping and update them.
Comment 2 RHEL Program Management 2013-10-13 23:40:40 UTC 
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for
inclusion in the current release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Because the affected component is not scheduled to be updated
in the current release, Red Hat is unable to address this
request at this time.

Red Hat invites you to ask your support representative to
propose this request, if appropriate, in the next release of
Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Comment 4 Tomas Mraz 2014-06-05 13:23:52 UTC 
The fixed useradd moves the SELinux login entry creation before creation of the user's home directory. This allows SELinux to create the directory with proper context.
Comment 10 errata-xmlrpc 2014-10-14 07:16:47 UTC 
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2014-1522.html
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