Unexpected behavior in permissive mode

[Miroslav Grepl]

On 04/04/2015 03:05 AM, Joseph L. Casale wrote:
> With the policy updates that came with centos 7.1 update, I am trying to
> update a few local policies we have but with `setenforce 0` I do not get
> an avc at all when running my app, however enabling it and rerunning it
> generates one, but without seeing them all that approach would be like
> wack-a-mole.
> 
> The avc I am getting after setenforce 1 is run is:
> 
> type=AVC msg=audit(1428109185.330:570): avc:  denied  { execute_no_trans } for  pid=3953 comm="su" path="/usr/sbin/unix_chkpwd" dev="dm-0" ino=25468477 scontext=system_u:system_r:bacula_t:s0 tcontext=sytype=SYSCAL
> 
> Why does this not trigger a denial in permissive mode?
> 
> Thanks,
> jlc
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What does if you switch the SELinux mode (which resets AVC cache)

# setenforce 1; setenforce 0

and then re-test it?

Could you also post full raw AVC?

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Miroslav Grepl
Software Engineering, SELinux Solutions
Red Hat, Inc.