audit log for "setenforce" changes?
Eric Paris
eparis at redhat.com
Mon Jan 14 18:42:48 UTC 2008
On Mon, 2008-01-14 at 13:31 -0500, Chuck Anderson wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 12:46:52PM -0500, Eric Paris wrote:
> > hmmm, are you getting any audit messages?
>
> It appears that the last message I got was on Dec 12:
>
> #ausearch -m AVC -i | tail -1
> type=AVC msg=audit(12/12/2007 06:05:58.434:68533739) : avc: denied {
> getattr } for pid=31687 comm=named path=/var/log/named/queries
> dev=dm-3 ino=10944781 scontext=system_u:system_r:named_t:s0
> tcontext=system_u:object_r:var_log_t:s0 tclass=file
>
>
> > Maybe a long time back your
> > ran out of disk space and auditd stopped logging?
>
> I don't think I ran out of space:
>
> #df -h
> Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-root
> 39G 301M 37G 1% /
> /dev/sda2 494M 32M 438M 7% /boot
> tmpfs 1.5G 0 1.5G 0% /dev/shm
> /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-home
> 97G 9.3G 83G 11% /home
> /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-usr
> 97G 1.3G 91G 2% /usr
> /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-var
> 97G 15G 78G 16% /var
>
> > If you service auditd
> > restart and it can't log for some reason it should tell you
> > in /var/log/messages...
> >
> > maybe auditd is turned off? what do you get from auditctl -s ?? is it
> > enabled? maybe you ran auditctl -e 0 at some time?
>
> #auditctl -s
> AUDIT_STATUS: enabled=1 flag=1 pid=2523 rate_limit=0 backlog_limit=256
> lost=0 backlog=0
>
> > assuming audit isn't running the message in dmesg looks like:
> > type=1404 audit(1200447974.622:247): enforcing=0 old_enforcing=1
> > auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295
> >
> > and the corresponding /var/log/messages:
> > Jan 15 20:46:14 dhcp231-146 kernel: type=1404 audit(1200447974.622:247):
> > enforcing=0 old_enforcing=1 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295
>
> #grep enforcing /var/log/messages
> #dmesg | grep enforcing
>
> Ok, I restarted auditd:
>
> #service auditd restart
> Stopping auditd: [ OK ]
> Starting auditd: [ OK ]
> #ausearch -m AVC -i | tail -1
> type=AVC msg=audit(01/14/2008 13:25:32.903:137848459) : avc: denied
> { getattr } for pid=31227 comm=radiusd
> path=/var/log/radius/radius.log dev=dm-3 ino=10944744
> scontext=unconfined_u:system_r:radiusd_t:s0
> tcontext=system_u:object_r:user_home_t:s0 tclass=file
>
> > start telling me about all of your versions, are they all stock or did
> > you build some of these parts yourself. Because I can't find a way to
> > reproduce the problem to fix it....
>
> Stock Fedora 8 with updates:
>
> #uname -r ; rpm -q kernel audit selinux-policy selinux-policy-targeted setools policycoreutils
> 2.6.23.8-63.fc8
> kernel-2.6.23.8-63.fc8
> kernel-2.6.23.9-85.fc8
> audit-1.6.2-4.fc8
> selinux-policy-3.0.8-73.fc8
> selinux-policy-targeted-3.0.8-73.fc8
> setools-3.3.1-7.fc8
> policycoreutils-2.0.33-2.fc8
> policycoreutils-2.0.33-3.fc8
>
> Here is what updated on Dec 12 when the audit logging stopped:
>
> Dec 12 05:59:52 Updated: yum - 3.2.8-2.fc8.noarch
> Dec 12 06:05:20 Updated: cyrus-sasl-lib - 2.1.22-8.fc8.i386
> Dec 12 06:05:20 Updated: libsepol - 2.0.15-1.fc8.i386
> Dec 12 06:05:20 Updated: libsemanage - 2.0.12-2.fc8.i386
> Dec 12 06:05:21 Updated: policycoreutils - 2.0.32-2.fc8.i386
> Dec 12 06:05:23 Updated: samba-common - 3.0.28-0.fc8.i386
> Dec 12 06:05:23 Updated: cyrus-sasl-md5 - 2.1.22-8.fc8.i386
> Dec 12 06:05:23 Updated: cyrus-sasl-plain - 2.1.22-8.fc8.i386
> Dec 12 06:05:24 Updated: samba-client - 3.0.28-0.fc8.i386
> Dec 12 06:05:24 Updated: cyrus-sasl - 2.1.22-8.fc8.i386
> Dec 12 06:05:25 Updated: selinux-policy - 3.0.8-64.fc8.noarch
> Dec 12 06:06:05 Updated: selinux-policy-targeted - 3.0.8-64.fc8.noarch
>
> I wonder if this is when it somehow got flipped back to enforcing=1
> since I had been running with a manual "setenforce 0" since November
Maybe on policy reload it read /etc/selinux/config and pulled that
setting?
Anyway, you have some serious labeling issue there in /var...
try restorecon -R /var
-Eric
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