selinux and crontab one-more-time

[Antonio Olivares]

Dear fellow Selinux experts,

I have encountered this before, apparently it has not gone away.  Running Fedora 11 Beta.  I have a small crontab file that will shutdown the machine at 4:15 pm :

[students at antonio-fedora-x86-64 ~]$ crontab -l
# min hour day-of-month month day-of-week command
15 16 * * 1-5 /usr/bin/poweroff >/dev/null 2>&1  

Seatroubleshooter comes up and gives me the following:  

In the other machine running rawhide I can't even access crontab -l, it tells me that I cannot do anything I have no authorizations :( 

Summary:

SELinux is preventing crontab (admin_crontab_t) "read write" unconfined_t.

Detailed Description:

SELinux denied access requested by crontab. It is not expected that this access
is required by crontab and this access may signal an intrusion attempt. It is
also possible that the specific version or configuration of the application is
causing it to require additional access.

Allowing Access:

You can generate a local policy module to allow this access - see FAQ
(http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/selinux-faq-fc5/#id2961385) Or you can disable
SELinux protection altogether. Disabling SELinux protection is not recommended.
Please file a bug report (http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/enter_bug.cgi)
against this package.

Additional Information:

Source Context                unconfined_u:unconfined_r:admin_crontab_t:s0-s0:c0
                              .c1023
Target Context                unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c1
                              023
Target Objects                socket [ unix_stream_socket ]
Source                        crontab
Source Path                   /usr/bin/crontab
Port                          <Unknown>
Host                          antonio-fedora-x86-64
Source RPM Packages           cronie-1.2-7.fc11
Target RPM Packages           
Policy RPM                    selinux-policy-3.6.12-3.fc11
Selinux Enabled               True
Policy Type                   targeted
MLS Enabled                   True
Enforcing Mode                Enforcing
Plugin Name                   catchall
Host Name                     antonio-fedora-x86-64
Platform                      Linux antonio-fedora-x86-64
                              2.6.29.1-68.fc11.x86_64 #1 SMP Sat Apr 11 02:20:46
                              EDT 2009 x86_64 x86_64
Alert Count                   53
First Seen                    Tue 14 Apr 2009 03:58:24 PM CDT
Last Seen                     Tue 14 Apr 2009 04:06:56 PM CDT
Local ID                      5b712474-909f-4775-a5d6-bf5a78404916
Line Numbers                  

Raw Audit Messages            

node=antonio-fedora-x86-64 type=AVC msg=audit(1239743216.390:74): avc:  denied  { read write } for  pid=19560 comm="crontab" path="socket:[12989]" dev=sockfs ino=12989 scontext=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:admin_crontab_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 tcontext=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 tclass=unix_stream_socket

node=antonio-fedora-x86-64 type=AVC msg=audit(1239743216.390:74): avc:  denied  { read write } for  pid=19560 comm="crontab" path="socket:[12791]" dev=sockfs ino=12791 scontext=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:admin_crontab_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 tcontext=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 tclass=unix_stream_socket

node=antonio-fedora-x86-64 type=AVC msg=audit(1239743216.390:74): avc:  denied  { read write } for  pid=19560 comm="crontab" path="socket:[12791]" dev=sockfs ino=12791 scontext=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:admin_crontab_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 tcontext=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 tclass=unix_stream_socket

node=antonio-fedora-x86-64 type=AVC msg=audit(1239743216.390:74): avc:  denied  { read write } for  pid=19560 comm="crontab" path="socket:[12791]" dev=sockfs ino=12791 scontext=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:admin_crontab_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 tcontext=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 tclass=unix_stream_socket

node=antonio-fedora-x86-64 type=AVC msg=audit(1239743216.390:74): avc:  denied  { read write } for  pid=19560 comm="crontab" path="socket:[12791]" dev=sockfs ino=12791 scontext=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:admin_crontab_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 tcontext=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 tclass=unix_stream_socket

node=antonio-fedora-x86-64 type=AVC msg=audit(1239743216.390:74): avc:  denied  { read write } for  pid=19560 comm="crontab" path="socket:[12791]" dev=sockfs ino=12791 scontext=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:admin_crontab_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 tcontext=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 tclass=unix_stream_socket

node=antonio-fedora-x86-64 type=AVC msg=audit(1239743216.390:74): avc:  denied  { read write } for  pid=19560 comm="crontab" path="socket:[12791]" dev=sockfs ino=12791 scontext=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:admin_crontab_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 tcontext=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 tclass=unix_stream_socket

node=antonio-fedora-x86-64 type=AVC msg=audit(1239743216.390:74): avc:  denied  { read write } for  pid=19560 comm="crontab" path="socket:[12791]" dev=sockfs ino=12791 scontext=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:admin_crontab_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 tcontext=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 tclass=unix_stream_socket

node=antonio-fedora-x86-64 type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1239743216.390:74): arch=c000003e syscall=59 success=yes exit=0 a0=acb200 a1=ac0d10 a2=adeda0 a3=7fff2149c340 items=0 ppid=19528 pid=19560 auid=501 uid=501 gid=501 euid=0 suid=0 fsuid=0 egid=0 sgid=0 fsgid=0 tty=pts1 ses=1 comm="crontab" exe="/usr/bin/crontab" subj=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:admin_crontab_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 key=(null)




Thank you in Advance,

Antonio