[DSE-Dev] Bug#690087: selinux-policy-default: sshd shell transitions are always denied

Paul Donohue DebianBugs at Linux.TopQuark.net
Tue Oct 9 20:12:52 UTC 2012


Package: selinux-policy-default
Version: 2:2.20110726-3
Severity: important

When protecting sshd with this policy, the transition that occurs when running
the user's shell is always denied, which prevents users from logging in:
type=AVC msg=audit(1349808486.496:121): avc:  denied  { transition } for  pid=3120 comm="sshd" path="/bin/bash" dev=dm-0 ino=554 scontext=system_u:system_r:sshd_t:s0 tcontext=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 tclass=process

The reason is that the daemon has no MCS categories assigned to it, so the mcs
policy constraints prevent the addition of categories.

As best as I can tell, sshd is not supposed to have any categories, and the user
is supposed to have categories, so this behavior should be allowed.  (Did I miss
something here?)

Assuming this behavior should be allowed, editing
policy/modules/system/authlogin.if and adding mcs_process_set_categories($1)
in the auth_login_pgm_domain interface fixes this problem.



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