[redhat-lspp] run_init dying with SIGHUP when called from pexpect as sysadm

[Daniel J Walsh]

Eduardo Madeira Fleury wrote:
> People,
>
> I've been dealing with a strange error. If I try to execute run_init from 
> within pexpect, being sysadm_r:sysadm_t, it dies with SIGHUP signal. If I try 
> the exact same procedure as auditadm_r:auditadm_t it works fine.
>
> To reproduce:
>
> # python
>
> from pexpect import run
> eve = {'(?i)Password: ' : '<yourpwd>\n'}
> run("/usr/sbin/run_init service", withexitstatus=1, events=eve)
>
> I've added a little hack to pexpect so it will "print child.signalstatus" 
> before ending the run method. This way I got the following:
> Exit: None
> Sign: 1 (which is SIGHUP)
> ('Authenticating fleury.\r\nPassword: \r\n', None)
>
> It was expected it printed the run_init usage line... It works fine if you try 
> with secadm_r:secadm_t.
>
> If nobody manifestates against it I'll open a bug on this.
>
> I've tried with RHEL5 10/27 + KickStart v0.9. You are welcome to try this on 
> other configs (the new refresh maybe.. or a system installed w/o KS script).
>
> Thanks,
>   
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