Creating multiple constrained admin roles

[Daniel J Walsh]

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On 05/09/2012 10:17 AM, Tim Sheppard wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I was wondering if it is possible to create a number of admin roles, each
> with limited access to specified admin features, e.g. package management
> only, NIC / Firewall management only, policy management only etc and to
> effectively completely remove the root account as a system wide
> administrator using selinux?
> 
> I have seen mention of Kiosk Users and the SELinux play machine (sadly my 
> corporate network does not allow global ssh access) so I believe this is 
> entirely possible, but am not entirely sure of the best resources to delve
> into so any pointers would be very welcome.
> 
> Many Thanks,
> 
> Tim
> 
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Yes this is theoretically possible.   The problem is certain domains when run
in as an Evil Admin would be able to break out.  For example if you only allow
the packagemaintainer to run rpm, then he will need to transition to rpm_t
which is basically unconfined.  He could then write a simple rpm to disable
SELinux and install it.  Game over.

Google

"confined admin site:danwalsh.livejournal.com"

You will find lots of blog posts on how to do this.

We ship a webadm_r and logadm_r now.
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