From: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
To: Andy Warner <warner@rubix.com>
Cc: SE-Linux <selinux@tycho.nsa.gov>
Subject: Re: execute system-config-selinux while enforcing
Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 09:17:27 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1336655847.8705.2.camel@moss-pluto> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FABBCA4.8090006@rubix.com>
On Thu, 2012-05-10 at 15:03 +0200, Andy Warner wrote:
> I am running Scientific Linux 6.0, fully updated using the targeted
> policy.
>
> Is there a method to execute the SELinux admin GUI tool
> system-config-selinux while in enforcing mode of the targeted policy?
>
> My assumption is that root linux user combined with sysadm_r role
> would work. However, after creating a shell with sudo -i -r sysadm_r
> (from the staff_r role), the tool fails to start. I then tried to
> create a user that would login via the GUI login and receive the
> sysadm_r role by default. In this case I was unsuccessful in even
> getting the sysadm_r role to have the sysadm_t upon login. It receives
> a context of sysadm_u:sysadm_r:oddjob_mkhomedir_t. This despite having
> the following /etc/selinux/targeted/contexts/users/sysadm_u file:
>
> system_r:local_login_t:s0 sysadm_r:sysadm_t:s0
> system_r:remote_login_t:s0 sysadm_r:sysadm_t:s0
> system_r:sshd_t:s0 sysadm_r:sysadm_t:s0
> system_r:crond_t:s0 sysadm_r:sysadm_t:s0
> system_r:xdm_t:s0 sysadm_r:sysadm_t:s0
> sysadm_r:sysadm_su_t:s0 sysadm_r:sysadm_t:s0
> sysadm_r:sysadm_sudo_t:s0 sysadm_r:sysadm_t:s0
> system_r:initrc_su_t:s0 sysadm_r:sysadm_t:s0
> sysadm_r:sysadm_t:s0 sysadm_r:sysadm_t:s0
> sysadm_r:sysadm_su_t:s0 sysadm_r:sysadm_t:s0
> sysadm_r:sysadm_sudo_t:s0 sysadm_r:sysadm_t:s0
Under targeted policy, wouldn't you run it from an
unconfined_u/unconfined_r login? Which would be the default for users
who haven't been mapped to a specific role via semanage.
--
Stephen Smalley
National Security Agency
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2012-05-10 13:03 execute system-config-selinux while enforcing Andy Warner
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2012-05-10 13:35 ` Andy Warner
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