From: domg472@gmail.com (Dominick Grift)
To: refpolicy@oss.tresys.com
Subject: [refpolicy] staff_t runs cronjobs as cronjob_t instead of staff_t in Fedora 11
Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 15:20:30 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1243430430.3633.9.camel@notebook2.grift.internal> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1243429020.5421.1.camel@gorn>
On Wed, 2009-05-27 at 08:56 -0400, Christopher J. PeBenito wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-05-21 at 22:05 +0200, Dominick Grift wrote:
> > I am not sure if this issue can be reproduced on non Redhat distros but
> > here in Fedora 11 cronjobs by staff_t get executed in the cronjob_t
> > domain.
> >
> > This is not very handy because if staff_t wants to back up his home
> > directory for example, then cronjob_t cannot access it.
> >
> > I am wondering why it runs as cronjob_t?
>
> Running in cronjob_t is expected. However it has permissions to manage
> user home dir content, so I'd only expect denials if the seuser didn't
> match.
>
I guess this is a RedHat specific issue. I have reported the "bug" to
bugzilla.redhat.com.
Not sure if Fedora patched out the part where it has access to user home
content but here on Fedora 11 cronjob_t cannot access it and UBAC isnt
enabled.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-27 13:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-21 20:05 [refpolicy] staff_t runs cronjobs as cronjob_t instead of staff_t in Fedora 11 Dominick Grift
2009-05-27 12:56 ` Christopher J. PeBenito
2009-05-27 13:20 ` Dominick Grift [this message]
2009-05-27 15:34 ` Daniel J Walsh
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