[refpolicy] Showing role attributes + issue when calling selinux utilities

[qingtao.cao@windriver.com (Harry Ciao)]

No big deal, thank you Christ!

Have a good day!

Harry

On 02/27/2012 11:15 PM, Christopher J. PeBenito wrote:
> On 02/26/12 21:31, Harry Ciao wrote:
>> I am very glad finally someone else also discovered this issue. I had
>> discovered it months ago and posted a patch to fix it, however, it had
>> not been integrated or even acked.
>>
>> Please search for my two emails entitled as "Make role attributes able
>> to type their "own" types." sent around 2011-12-15 to the refpolicy
>> mailing list.
>>
>> Aside from new_roles and run_init_roles, some other role attributes such
>> as groupadd_roles, useradd_roles and chfn_roles should have been able to
>> type with their counterpart domains.
> Sorry I missed that patch.  I'll go get it.
>
>> On 02/26/2012 09:19 PM, Sven Vermeulen wrote:
>>> Hi guys,
>>>
>>> Continuing the 20120215 release testing, I noticed that I can't call
>>> run_init anymore:
>>>
>>>     ~# run_init
>>>     -bash: /usr/sbin/run_init: Permission denied
>>>
>>> Same for newrole:
>>>
>>>     ~# newrole -r sysadm_r
>>>     -bash: /usr/bin/newrole: Permission denied
>>>
>>> The denial is because of invalid context:
>>>
>>> ~# dmesg | tail -1
>>> [ 6165.059146] type=1401 audit(1330261818.013:2712): security_compute_sid:
>>> invalid context root:staff_r:newrole_t for scontext=root:staff_r:newrole_t
>>> tcontext=root:staff_r:newrole_t tclass=unix_stream_socket
>>>
>>> It looks that it has something to do with the role attribute support,
>>> because seutil_run_runinit has changed between 20110726 and 20120215 to that
>>> regard:
>>>
>>>     ~$ ## 20110726 policy
>>>     ~$ seshowif seutil_run_runinit
>>>     interface(`seutil_run_runinit',`
>>>             gen_require(`
>>>                     type run_init_t;
>>>                     role system_r;
>>>             ')
>>>
>>>             auth_run_chk_passwd(run_init_t, $2)
>>>             seutil_domtrans_runinit($1)
>>>             role $2 types run_init_t;
>>>
>>>             allow $2 system_r;
>>>     ')
>>>
>>>     ~$ ## 20120215 policy
>>>     $ seshowif seutil_run_runinit
>>>     interface(`seutil_run_runinit',`
>>>             gen_require(`
>>>                     attribute_role run_init_roles;
>>>             ')
>>>
>>>             seutil_domtrans_runinit($1)
>>>             roleattribute $2 run_init_roles;
>>>     ')
>>>
>>> Do I need to include "allow $2 system_r" again here?
>>>
>>> Another question: is it possible to query the role attributes on the system?
>>> seinfo only shows those for types...
>>>
>>> Wkr,
>>> 	Sven Vermeulen
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