From: Dominick Grift <dac.override@gmail.com>
To: Laurent Bigonville <bigon@debian.org>, selinux-refpolicy@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: systemd --user for GDM started as unconfined_t instead of xdm_t
Date: Sun, 6 Oct 2019 12:13:38 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191006101338.GD469820@brutus.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191006100125.GC469820@brutus.lan>
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On Sun, Oct 06, 2019 at 12:01:25PM +0200, Dominick Grift wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 06, 2019 at 11:41:56AM +0200, Dominick Grift wrote:
> > On Sun, Oct 06, 2019 at 11:22:00AM +0200, Laurent Bigonville wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I discovered today that the GDM own processes are started as unconfined_t
> > > instead of xdm_t because systemd --user process itself is started in that
> > > context.
> > >
> > > This is probably related to:
> > >
> > > commit da156aea1e89a6ff6025be7e50c9c8173e5a6dcf
> > > Author: Chris PeBenito <Christopher.PeBenito@microsoft.com>
> > > Date: Fri Apr 19 11:50:59 2019 -0400
> > >
> > > systemd: Add initial policy for systemd --user.
> > >
> > > This is just a start; it does not cover all uses.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Chris PeBenito <Christopher.PeBenito@microsoft.com>
> > >
> > > Was that expected and/or wanted?
> >
> > It just means that gdm hooks into pam, and since 1. your __default__ id is set to unconfined_u and 2. you do not have a private id for gdm (and gnome-initial-setup) systemd will start gdm's systemd --user instance with unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t.
> >
> > One (ugly but arguable less ugly than the alternative) solution is to create a "xdm_u" and allow systemd to run a systemd --user instance on behalf of gdm with "xdm_u:system_r:xdm_t"
> >
> > That way you can tell selinux that gdm's systemd --user instance should never transition out of xdm_u:system_r:xdm_t
> >
> > echo "system_r:init_t:s0 system_r:xdm_t:s0" > /etc/selinux/TYPE/contexts/users/xdm_u
> >
> > Then all processes in the gdm session should stay in xdm_t (but some processes will be associate with xdm_u and other with system_u).
> >
> > You would probably also want to add to semanage.conf:
> >
> > ignoredirs = /var/lib/gdm;/run/gnome-initial-setup
> >
> > and make sure that selinux does not relabel /run/user/$(id -u gdm)
>
> Just to clarify. The patch you reference is not responsible for the uglyness that is GDM/Gnome
> Without this patch, the systemd --user instance of GDM (and any other users) would run in "init_t". This is obviously also not desirable.
I wonder what you happen if you would (would gdm still work?):
sudo systemctl mask user@$(id -u gdm).service user-runtime-dir@$(id -u gdm).service
>
> >
> > >
> > > Kind regards,
> > >
> > > Laurent Bigonville
> > >
> >
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2019-10-06 9:22 systemd --user for GDM started as unconfined_t instead of xdm_t Laurent Bigonville
2019-10-06 9:41 ` Dominick Grift
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