Re: logrotate accessing /root avc messages

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On 03/24/2011 09:42 PM, Luciano Furtado wrote:
> Hi Daniel,
> 
> Sorry I did not mention this earlier. This is a Debian machine. I was
> not aware that they had their own policies.
> 
> lrfurtado:~# dpkg -l | grep selinux
> ii  libselinux1                           2.0.65-5
> SELinux shared libraries
> ii  python-selinux                        2.0.65-5
> Python bindings to SELinux shared libraries
> ii  selinux-basics                        0.3.5
> SELinux basic support
> ii  selinux-policy-default                2:0.0.20080702-6
> Strict and Targeted variants of the SELinux
> ii  selinux-policy-dev                    2:0.0.20080702-6
> Headers from the SELinux reference policy fo
> ii  selinux-utils                         2.0.65-5
> SELinux utility programs
> lrfurtado:~# dpkg -l | grep logrotate
> ii  logrotate                             3.7.1-5                    Log
> rotation utility
> lrfurtado:~# cat /etc/debian_version
> 5.0.7
> lrfurtado:~#
> 
> On 11-03-24 14:16, Daniel J Walsh wrote:
>> On 03/24/2011 02:08 PM, Luciano Furtado wrote:
>>> Hey Guys,
> 
> 
>>> Any ideas why logrotate is trying to access /root as shown by the avc
>>> message bellow:
> 
>>> lrfurtado:~# ausearch -ts today
>>> ----
>>> time->Thu Mar 24 06:25:45 2011
>>> type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1300947945.464:26): arch=40000003 syscall=5
>>> success=no exit=-13 a0=88404c0 a1=8000 a2=0 a3=8000 items=0 ppid=13192
>>> pid=13193 auid=4294967295 uid=0 gid=0 euid=0 suid=0 fsuid=0 egid=0
>>> sgid=0 fsgid=0 tty=(none) ses=4294967295 comm="logrotate"
>>> exe="/usr/sbin/logrotate"
>>> subj=system_u:system_r:logrotate_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 key=(null)
>>> type=AVC msg=audit(1300947945.464:26): avc:  denied  { search } for
>>> pid=13193 comm="logrotate" name="root" dev=xvda ino=401409
>>> scontext=system_u:system_r:logrotate_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023
>>> tcontext=unconfined_u:object_r:unconfined_home_dir_t:s0 tclass=dir

Were you maybe running logrotate manually as root? It may be a "current
pwd" thing.

> 
> 
>>> is this the issue described here :
> 
>>>  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=471463
> 
>>> For now I have added :
> 
>>> allow logrotate_t unconfined_home_dir_t:dir search;
> 
>>> to my local module to shut up the avc messages. IS there any to stop
>>> logrotate from generating those AVC messages other then adding the allow
>>> rule above?
> 
> 
>>> Best Regards.
>>> Luciano
> 
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