SELinux default contexts and PAM session?

Daniel J Walsh dwalsh at redhat.com
Sat May 16 11:59:25 UTC 2009


On 05/15/2009 05:47 PM, Brian Ginn wrote:
> I have a server app that runs from xinetd.
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> This server's job is to exec a program.
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> This app is not yet confined by SELinux policy.
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> When I use PAM session service, audit.log shows:
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> type=USER_ROLE_CHANGE msg=audit(1242413723.389:14866): user pid=24149 uid=0 auid=0 subj=system_u:system_r:inetd_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 msg='pam: default-context=root:system_r:amanda_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 selected-context=root:system_r:amanda_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023: exe="/usr/sbin/myserverd" (hostname=?, addr=?, terminal=ptmx res=success)'
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> Somehow, SELinux is deciding that the default context should be ...amanda_t...
> How is that decision made?
> Can I create a more correct context (that will be recognized as the default context) without confining the server?
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> Thanks,
> Brian
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I have no idea what this is, but is there a pam_selinux somewhere being 
called in your pam stack?

pam_selinux is used for assinging user domains and it is obviously confused.




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