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Bug 119671 - up2date does not work in enforcing mode on SELinux
Summary: up2date does not work in enforcing mode on SELinux
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: up2date
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
high
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Assignee: Adrian Likins
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Blocks: up2date-fc2 122683
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2004-04-01 12:58 UTC by Daniel Walsh
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:10 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2004-08-27 01:54:49 UTC
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Description Daniel Walsh 2004-04-01 12:58:47 UTC 
Description of problem:
up2date is not running under a context that allows it to install rpm
files.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Try to run up2date
2.
3.
  
Actual results:


Expected results:


Additional info:
You need to modify /etc/security/console.apps/up2date

USER=root
PROGRAM=/usr/sbin/up2date
NOXOPTION=--nox
SESSION=true
ROLE=sysadm_r
TYPE=rpm_t

ROLE and TYPE will cause up2date to run with the rpm_t policy and
allow it to install rpm's on a SELinux box.  If the box
is not SELinux these fields will be ignored.

Could you add them to the up2date package.

>
Comment 1 Chen Nan 2004-04-01 15:11:39 UTC 
I don't know whether this is the same issue, but for my case up2date
couldn't even run.

If I start up2date as a normal user, I get the following error after
entering root password:
"Could not set exec context to user_u:sysadm_r:sysadm_t."

If I start update as root user, it runs.
Comment 2 Steve Ward 2004-04-02 02:45:26 UTC 
I tried making the change recommended, it had no effect.
Comment 3 Chen Nan 2004-04-03 02:16:31 UTC 
I tried to modify "/etc/security/console.apps/up2date" to add the
following lines as recommended by the bug reporter:

ROLE=sysadm_r
TYPE=rpm_t

I got the following error:

[chennan@localhost chennan]$ up2date
Could not set exec context to user_u:rpm_t:sysadm_r.
Broken pipe
Comment 4 Daniel Walsh 2004-04-03 05:24:06 UTC 
You need to update the usermode package and grab the latest policy files.
Comment 5 Adrian Likins 2004-04-05 19:00:18 UTC 
committed to cvs, 4.3.15 or higher should have it
Comment 6 Carlos 2004-04-06 16:36:53 UTC 
running uptodate stated there was an ethereal dependency problem..
after rebooting i got to:
halted
Kernel Panic: attempted to kill init!
to fix this i had to boot into rescue mode...and edit the following:
/etc/sysconfig/selinux
this originally read:
SELINUX=enforcing
in order to boot my system I changed it to:
SELINUX=disabled
then had to:
chroot /mnt/sysimage
to get back into fedora core 2 test 2

hope this info helps... just reporting my similar problem.
Comment 7 Noa Resare 2004-04-09 20:57:23 UTC 
Initially I had the same problem as #3 above, but upgrading to
policy-1.10.1-4 and kernel-2.6.5-1.308 from the development tree on an
otherwise blank fc2test2 resolves this.

My recomendation would be to close this as RAWHIDE
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