Fedora 19 Selinux policy stops nagios

[Miroslav Grepl]

On 07/07/2013 08:52 AM, Dominick Grift wrote:
> On Sun, 2013-07-07 at 00:56 -0400, Vadym Chepkov wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I just upgraded to Fedora 19 and found out nagios is incompatible with Selinux policy.
>> One could blame nagios maintainers to not comply with SELinux, since they use /var/log/nagios location for work files:
>>
>> # grep /var/log /etc/nagios/nagios.cfg
>> log_file=/var/log/nagios/nagios.log
>> object_cache_file=/var/log/nagios/objects.cache
>> precached_object_file=/var/log/nagios/objects.precache
>> status_file=/var/log/nagios/status.dat
>> temp_file=/var/log/nagios/nagios.tmp
>> log_archive_path=/var/log/nagios/archives
>> check_result_path=/var/log/nagios/spool/checkresults
>> state_retention_file=/var/log/nagios/retention.dat
>> debug_file=/var/log/nagios/nagios.debug
>>
> I would probably file a bugreport to fedora bugzilla for nagios, and ask
> the packager to put the non-log files in more appropriate places
> (/var/lib/nagios or /run/nagios maybe?), i would also cc. the fedora
> selinux-policy maintainer (mgrepl) so that he can add selinux policy to
> support the proper solution if needed.
Yes, please open a new bug for nagios to fix locations.
>
> Type nagios_var_lib_t seems appropriate:
>
>     allow nagios_t nagios_var_lib_t : file { ioctl read write create
> getattr setattr lock append unlink link rename open } ;
>     allow nagios_t nagios_var_lib_t : dir { ioctl read write getattr lock
> add_name remove_name search open } ;
>     allow nagios_t nagios_var_run_t : file { ioctl read write create
> getattr setattr lock append unlink link rename open } ;
>     allow nagios_t nagios_var_run_t : dir { ioctl read write getattr lock
> add_name remove_name search open } ;
>     allow nagios_t nagios_var_lib_t : fifo_file { ioctl read write create
> getattr setattr lock append unlink link rename open } ;
>
> # semanage fcontext -l | grep nagios_var_lib_t
> /usr/lib/pnp4nagios(/.*)?                          all files
> system_u:object_r:nagios_var_lib_t:s0
>
>> but it used to work in Fedora 18 and now doesn't work at all.
>>
>> I tried to relocate some of the files to /var/spool/nagios, but it didn't help, SElinux doesn't allow to modify nagios_spool_t either.
>> audit2allow suggested to allow nagios_t nagios_spool_t:file { rename write getattr read create unlink open };
>>
>> Is there some other type I overlooked so I can use it properly?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Vadym
>>
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