Re: Confined Users and Cron

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On 03/08/2016 03:40 AM, Douglas Brown wrote:
> Hi list,

Hi Doug,

> 
> We have a client who wants a service account’s crontab to run a ruby
> script in /var/www; this isn’t permitted by default and I have no idea
> what this script does 

which is important and it is a reason why we confine crontabs. We want
to contain possible security issues in crontabs.

> but from past experience suspect it will generate
> an array of misleading AVCs if I go down the route of allowing crontab_t
> to read httpdcontent attribute (ie. httpd_sys_rw_content_t, etc.) files
> and directories. Could someone please explain the rationale behind the
> policy design for user crontab confinement and how I should handle this
> situation?

What is your OS? What AVC are you getting?

> 
> Thanks,
> Doug
> 
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