From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <4FABC406.3060603@rubix.com> Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 15:35:02 +0200 From: Andy Warner MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Stephen Smalley CC: SE-Linux Subject: Re: execute system-config-selinux while enforcing References: <4FABBCA4.8090006@rubix.com> <1336655847.8705.2.camel@moss-pluto> In-Reply-To: <1336655847.8705.2.camel@moss-pluto> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Sender: owner-selinux@tycho.nsa.gov List-Id: selinux@tycho.nsa.gov On 5/10/2012 3:17 PM, Stephen Smalley wrote: > 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. Yep., my bad. For some reason it would not work under my personal unconfined account so I created a new one and it works fine. So, it's an issue specific to my personal account. -- This message was distributed to subscribers of the selinux mailing list. If you no longer wish to subscribe, send mail to majordomo@tycho.nsa.gov with the words "unsubscribe selinux" without quotes as the message.