[refpolicy] [PATCH 11/34]: patch to allow consolekit shutdown the system

[dwalsh@redhat.com (Daniel J Walsh)]

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On 03/01/2011 02:40 PM, Guido Trentalancia wrote:
> On Tue, 01/03/2011 at 14.18 -0500, Christopher J. PeBenito wrote:
>> On 02/23/11 13:57, Guido Trentalancia wrote:
>>> On Wed, 23/02/2011 at 09.27 -0500, Christopher J. PeBenito wrote:
>>>> On 02/16/11 01:11, Guido Trentalancia wrote:
>>>>> This patch adds some permissions needed to shutdown the system
>>>>> using the graphical interface.
>>>>>
>>>>> diff -pruN -x booleans.conf -x corenetwork.if -x corenetwork.te -x modules.conf refpolicy-git-02022011/policy/modules/services/consolekit.te refpolicy-git-02022011-new/policy/modules/services/consolekit.te
>>>>> --- refpolicy-git-02022011/policy/modules/services/consolekit.te	2011-01-08 19:07:21.232739776 +0100
>>>>> +++ refpolicy-git-02022011-new/policy/modules/services/consolekit.te	2011-01-26 01:40:05.845983864 +0100
>>>>> @@ -118,6 +118,10 @@ optional_policy(`
>>>>>  ')
>>>>>  
>>>>>  optional_policy(`
>>>>> +	shutdown_getattr_exec_files(consolekit_t)
>>>>> +')
>>>>> +
>>>>> +optional_policy(`
>>>>>  	udev_domtrans(consolekit_t)
>>>>>  	udev_read_db(consolekit_t)
>>>>>  	udev_signal(consolekit_t)
>>>>
>>>> How does this allow shutdown of the system?  It only allows a getattr on
>>>> the shutdown command.
>>>
>>> Yes, in fact the system shutdown functionality (from Gnome) apparently
>>> is not working fine. It's not completing the job.
>>>
>>> But there are no other AVC denials apart from that. So perhaps something
>>> is broken in Gnome or Consolekit, I didn't manage to investigate further
>>> so far (until I get further AVCs it's difficult to say that it's related
>>> to the policy).
>>
>> There may be things that are dontaudited that need to be allowed.
> 
> I bet so. But is there any way to disable the effect of dontaudit ?
> Something such as a boolean that will treat dontaudit as allow or
> otherwise just ignore it so that the AVCs show up ?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Guido
> 
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