Unable to mount ntfs partition with normal user F9 (selinux)

Daniel J Walsh dwalsh at redhat.com
Thu Jun 12 13:46:41 UTC 2008


Louis E Garcia II wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-06-11 at 18:34 -0400, Louis E Garcia II wrote:
>> With F9 a normal user can't mount an ntfs partition. Mounting the
>> partition with nautilus I'm asked for root password, after entering
>> nothing is mounted. I receive this message. As root I'm able to mount
>> just fine.
>>
> 
> Like always, as soon as I report something an update comes along and
> fixes it, selinux-policy-targeted-3.3.1-64.fc9
> 
> A normal user can now mount fuse volumes, however when umounting the
> volume I get this: Although the umount is successful. 
> 
> 
> Summary:
> 
> SELinux prevented umount from mounting on the file or directory
> "/media/.hal-mtab-lock" (type "mnt_t").
> 
> Detailed Description:
> 
> SELinux prevented umount from mounting a filesystem on the file or
> directory
> "/media/.hal-mtab-lock" of type "mnt_t". By default SELinux limits the
> mounting
> of filesystems to only some files or directories (those with types that
> have the
> mountpoint attribute). The type "mnt_t" does not have this attribute.
> You can
> either relabel the file or directory or set the boolean
> "allow_mount_anyfile" to
> true to allow mounting on any file or directory.
> 
> Allowing Access:
> 
> Changing the "allow_mount_anyfile" boolean to true will allow this
> access:
> "setsebool -P allow_mount_anyfile=1."
> 
> Fix Command:
> 
> setsebool -P allow_mount_anyfile=1
> 
> Additional Information:
> 
> Source Context                system_u:system_r:mount_t:s0
> Target Context                system_u:object_r:mnt_t:s0
> Target Objects                /media/.hal-mtab-lock [ file ]
> Source                        umount
> Source Path                   /bin/umount
> Port                          <Unknown>
> Host                          sonlaptop
> Source RPM Packages           util-linux-ng-2.13.1-6.fc9
> Target RPM Packages           
> Policy RPM                    selinux-policy-3.3.1-64.fc9
> Selinux Enabled               True
> Policy Type                   targeted
> MLS Enabled                   True
> Enforcing Mode                Enforcing
> Plugin Name                   allow_mount_anyfile
> Host Name                     sonlaptop
> Platform                      Linux sonlaptop 2.6.25.6-55.fc9.i686 #1
> SMP Tue
>                               Jun 10 16:27:49 EDT 2008 i686 i686
> Alert Count                   7
> First Seen                    Thu 05 Jun 2008 11:15:46 PM EDT
> Last Seen                     Wed 11 Jun 2008 11:31:12 PM EDT
> Local ID                      7d3ccb1d-8ca0-4a9a-b91b-509e98ac7408
> Line Numbers                  
> 
> Raw Audit Messages            
> 
> host=sonlaptop type=AVC msg=audit(1213241472.355:16): avc:  denied
> { read write } for  pid=2923 comm="umount" path="/media/.hal-mtab-lock"
> dev=dm-0 ino=474210 scontext=system_u:system_r:mount_t:s0
> tcontext=system_u:object_r:mnt_t:s0 tclass=file
> 
> host=sonlaptop type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1213241472.355:16): arch=40000003
> syscall=11 success=yes exit=0 a0=804b14d a1=bfca3a50 a2=bfca3fcc
> a3=804b14d items=0 ppid=2922 pid=2923 auid=4294967295 uid=0 gid=0 euid=0
> suid=0 fsuid=0 egid=0 sgid=0 fsgid=0 tty=(none) ses=4294967295
> comm="umount" exe="/bin/umount" subj=system_u:system_r:mount_t:s0
> key=(null)
> 
This is a hal bug

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=447195

Hopefully the fix will get pushed soon.




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