Re: problem with capabilities inheritance and auditing in python

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On Fri, 2009-02-06 at 15:56 -0600, Xavier Toth wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 12:10 PM, Stephen Smalley <sds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2009-02-05 at 11:08 -0600, Xavier Toth wrote:
> >> I've set the capabilities on a script that runs some python code with
> >> auditing calls in it but I'm not getting audit records written to the
> >> audit log. From what I've read I thought the +i would all the
> >> capability to be inherited across execve but this doesn't appear to be
> >> the case. Can anyone help me understand what's going wrong here? Is
> >> there a way in the python code to get the capabilities to see if
> >> indeed cap_audit_write was inherited?
> >
> > Linux doesn't honor setuid on scripts, and file capabilities are
> > supposed to have the same behavior (they didn't for a while due to an
> > oversight, but that was corrected).  You need an executable wrapper
> > program that invokes the script, like:
> > http://oss.tresys.com/projects/clip/browser/trunk/RHEL5.2/scripts/wrappers/wrapper.c
> >
> > --
> > Stephen Smalley
> > National Security Agency
> >
> >
> 
> Having used this wrapper code pretty much as is I'm now seeing
> self:capability dac_override and dac_read_search AVCs. Do I need to do
> something similar to what newrole does to drop capabilities that I
> don't need my python script to have after all I'm only trying to give
> it the ability to audit?

You can just dontaudit those denials if you don't need those
capabilities.

-- 
Stephen Smalley
National Security Agency


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