selinux does not like crontab :(, default_t, kde

[Antonio Olivares]

> The kde read/writing to /.kde is a kde bug/  kdm should
> have a home 
> directory that we could give access to, not /.  I have this
> setup and 
> although it genetates AVC's  I am able to login fine. 
> Although gdm 
> works better.
> 
> If you want to get rid of these avc's you could
> execute.
> 
> # semanage fcontext -a -t xdm_var_run_t
> '/\.kde(/.*)?'
> # restorecon -R -v /.kde
> 
> Running crontab -e as root, problem is also a
> kdebase/konsole problem of 
> leaked file descriptors.  If you do an ls /proc/self/fd in
> the konsole 
> you will see a whole bunch of file descriptors that have
> been leaked to 
> the konsole.  When you start a confined domain from the
> console SELinux 
> reports these leaked file descriptors and closes them.
> 
> ls -l /proc/self/fd
> 
> should show something like
> 
> # ls -l /proc/self/fd
> total 0
> lr-x------. 1 root root 64 2009-03-26 08:31 0 ->
> /dev/pts/4
> lrwx------. 1 root root 64 2009-03-26 08:31 1 ->
> /dev/pts/4
> lrwx------. 1 root root 64 2009-03-26 08:31 2 ->
> /dev/pts/4
> lr-x------. 1 root root 64 2009-03-26 08:31 3 ->
> /proc/32759/fd
> 
> Which are three fd's to the terminal and one to the
> directory you are 
> listing.
> 
> I see no avc that would break crontab -e?
The avc denies crontab to display it and therefore the error.  This happens on two machines running rawhide since the third one broke down :(.  I can't test it there :(
> 
> 
> [olivares at riohigh ~]$ crontab -l
> 
> Authentication service cannot retrieve authentication info
> You (olivares) are not allowed to access to (crontab)
> because of pam 
> configuration.
> 
> Looks like you are running this as a normal user?  Or are
> you running as 
> root?
Normal user, even root can't edit crontab because the authority is denied :(, yes pam configuration :)
> 
> 
> I can not get this to happen on my machine, so I think it
> might be 
> something about the way you have pam setup?  Do you have
> anything 
> special setup in pam?
No, just regular default setup as it comes.  Nothing special set aside.

Will try to apply the changes and report back. Thanks for helping out.

Regards,

Antonio