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Bug 119198 - make [re]load fails from the single-user shell
Summary: make [re]load fails from the single-user shell
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: policy
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Daniel Walsh
QA Contact: Ben Levenson
URL:
Whiteboard: triage|leonardjo|closed|rawhide
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Blocks: 122683
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2004-03-26 08:44 UTC by Aleksey Nogin
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:10 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

Fixed In Version: 1.9.1-2
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Environment:
Last Closed: 2004-05-10 17:45:09 UTC
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Description Aleksey Nogin 2004-03-26 08:44:12 UTC 
If I boot into single user, cd to /etc/security/selinux/src/policy and
try "make load" or "make reload", it fails in enforcing mode.
Specifically, it can not execute checkpolicy. The log messages are:

Mar 25 23:45:38 dell kernel: security_compute_sid:  invalid context
system_u:system_r:checkpolicy_t for
scontext=system_u:system_r:sysadm_t
tcontext=system_u:object_r:checkpolicy_exec_t tclass=process
Mar 25 23:45:38 dell kernel: security:  context
system_u:system_r:checkpolicy_t is invalid
Comment 1 Stephen Smalley 2004-03-26 15:28:20 UTC 
sulogin should be setting the admin shell context to
root:sysadm_r:sysadm_t, which would be able to run checkpolicy.
From the message above, it appears that your single user shell is
running as system_u:system_r:sysadm_t, and system_r is not authorized
for checkpolicy_t.  First question is:  Why isn't sulogin being run,
or is there a problem with the sulogin patch?

A workaround would be to add 'role system_r types checkpolicy_t;' to
checkpolicy.te to authorize the role for the domain.  Or you could add
'role_transition system_r checkpolicy_exec_t sysadm_r;' to force a
transition in role upon executing checkpolicy.
Comment 2 Aleksey Nogin 2004-03-26 19:43:35 UTC 
> First question is:  Why isn't sulogin being run,

The sulogin is only run AFAIK when there is some problem with fsck or
RAID. I am not talking about that - I am talking about the shell
promps you get (w/o having to enter the rool password) when booting
into the single-user mode.
Comment 3 Daniel Walsh 2004-04-01 17:59:09 UTC 
This should be fixed by the latest policy 1.9.1-2
Comment 4 Stephen Smalley 2004-04-01 18:17:46 UTC 
sulogin can be run for single-user boots via inittab; this ensures
that even a single-user boot requires root password.  A good idea, IMHO,
but your choice...
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