Paul Howarth wrote:
On Tue, 2006-05-23 at 17:12 -0700, Knute Johnson wrote:
I found some interesting things in my 'messages' log today. I'm not
sure what they mean and would appreciate any information.
This one is the most bothersome. It appears that 'useradd' was
prevented from running this morning only I didn't run it. Would any
other programs run 'useradd' and what would cause it to be denied?
May 23 05:11:49 rabbitbrush kernel: audit(1148386309.877:556): avc:
denied { write } for pid=13906 comm="useradd" name="[1708464]"
dev=pipefs ino=1708464 scontext=user_u:system_r:useradd_t:s0
tcontext=user_u:system_r:unconfined_t:s0 tclass=fifo_file
useradd is often run in the pre-install scripts of rpm packages when the
package provides something that runs as a service. You probably updated
such a package (or yum did it automatically in the overnight run). For
instance, I got one of these when avahi was updated recently. The
pre-install script for the avahi package is:
# Add the "avahi" user
/usr/sbin/useradd -c 'Avahi daemon' -u 70 \
-s /sbin/nologin -r -d '/' avahi 2> /dev/null || :
The denial is coming because useradd is trying to write its output to a
pipe, which is not allowed by policy. Perhaps it should be?
Anyway, I think this one's harmless.
The problem with that theory is you would expect it to be talking to
rpm_script_t or rpm_t. Probably a leaked
descriptor that useradd does not need to talk to, but applications that
are handed open descriptors some times check their
access, which could cause an AVC.
There are a boatload of these messages. I know that 'webalizer' is a
statistics formatter for the web server but why would it be run
dozens of times and be denied?
May 23 04:02:02 rabbitbrush kernel: audit(1148382121.861:514): avc:
denied { create } for pid=12313 comm="webalizer"
scontext=user_u:system_r:webalizer_t:s0
tcontext=user_u:system_r:webalizer_t:s0 tclass=netlink_route_socket
I get these too. I asked about it yesterday but no response yet. Looking
at the policy for other packages, and bearing in mind that webalizer
still seems to work despite the denials, I suspect that these can be
dontaudit-ed, but I'd like to know what they are first.
This means webalizer is trying to look at the routing table. Not sure
whether it matters whether it can or can not. Not that
valuable of information so I will probably allow.
Paul.
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