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From: Dominick Grift <dominick.grift@defensec.nl>
To: Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au>
Cc: selinux-refpolicy@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: /run/credentials
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2026 12:04:37 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h5m740ui.fsf@defensec.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2526945.QCnGb9OGeP@dojacat> (Russell Coker's message of "Fri, 10 Jul 2026 19:29:31 +1000")

Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au> writes:

> Does anyone have any policy for credentials?  

I do but it did you age as well as it could have.

>
> Below is what I'm getting on my systems running Debian/Testing, directories 
> like the following with no files in them.
>
> # find /run/credentials/
> /run/credentials/
> /run/credentials/getty@tty2.service
> /run/credentials/systemd-resolved.service
> /run/credentials/systemd-journald.service
> # find /run/credentials/ -type f
> # 
>
> Currently what is happening is daemons trying to read their own dir and being 
> denied, here's an example:
>
> type=AVC msg=audit(1783593117.796:143): avc:  denied  { open } for  pid=1034 
> comm="agetty" path="/run/credentials/getty@tty1.service" dev="tmpfs" ino=1 
> scontext=system_u:system_r:getty_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:object_r:tmpfs_t:s0 
> tclass=dir permissive=1
>
> I was thinking of adding a credentials_runtime_t type and labelling everything 
> under /run/credentials with it, giving daemons read-access to directories and 
> wait to write real policy until people make daemons actually use it.

Did you read this:

https://systemd.io/CREDENTIALS/


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2026-07-10  9:29 /run/credentials Russell Coker
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