Re: SELinux: creating a per-user confined domain

> Thanks all for replies.
> I have modified the policy by using the template
> userdom_unpriv_user_template() and everything is ok.
> Talking about different labels for each home directory i'm not sure but if
> all users domains have access to the default type user_home_dir_t
> access control on files under /home will be based on DAC mechanism.
> My effort is focused on trying to evaluate if it is possible with SELinux to
> protect files using as criteria for access decision the combination user
> identity-application-identity.
> For example i want to protect the user's private key allowing the access
> only to the program "ssh" ran by the user "user1".
> In my policy i created the domain "user1_t" which is set by the login
> program when "user1" logs in the system. Then i called the interface
> ssh_basic_client_template(user1, user1_t, user1_r) which creates the derived
> domain user1_ssh_t at the time user1 executes the "ssh" command. The file
> $home/.ssh/id_rsa could be labeled with a unique label and a specific rule
> can be added to allow only the user1_ssh_t domain to read the key.
> Denying to users the ability to set security contexts, does this policy
> create a separation between the ssh application and the others ran by the
> same user?

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> On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 5:40 PM, Daniel J Walsh <dwalsh@...> wrote:
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> > On 09/15/2009 09:57 AM, Roberto Sassu wrote:
> > > Hello all
> > >
> > > i'm new to SELinux. I'm trying to create per-user domains in a system
> > running
> > > Fedora 11 with the targeted policy enabled. The reason for that is that i
> > need
> > > to create transitions to different domains when users start the same
> > > application.
> > > I followed these steps:
> > > - written my custom policy module(posted as attachment) in order to
> > create new
> > > roles user1_r, user2_r with the default domains user1_t and user2_t;
> > > - added to the system new selinux users user1_u and user2_u;
> > > - added to the system the new linux users user1 and user2;
> > > - associated user1 with user1_u and user2 with user2_u;
> > > - labeled home directories respectively with types user1_home_t and
> > > user2_home_t
> > > - created the two files user1_u and user2_u in
> > > /etc/selinux/targeted/contexts/users;
> > >
> > > Then i tried to connect in local to the ssh server from root to the user1
> > but
> > > it rejected the connection with this log messages (but no AVC warnings):
> > >
> > > Sep 15 15:39:19 seclab05 sshd[5014]: Accepted password for user1 from ::1
> > port
> > > 53163 ssh2
> > > Sep 15 15:39:19 seclab05 sshd[5014]: pam_selinux(sshd:session):
> > conversation
> > > failed
> > > Sep 15 15:39:19 seclab05 sshd[5014]: pam_selinux(sshd:session): No
> > response to
> > > query: Would you like to enter a security context? [N]
> > > Sep 15 15:39:19 seclab05 sshd[5014]: pam_selinux(sshd:session): Unable to
> > get
> > > valid context for user1
> > > Sep 15 15:39:19 seclab05 sshd[5014]: pam_unix(sshd:session): session
> > opened
> > > for user user1 by (uid=0)
> > > Sep 15 15:39:19 seclab05 sshd[5014]: error: PAM: pam_open_session():
> > > Authentication failure
> > > Sep 15 15:39:19 seclab05 sshd[5014]: error: ssh_selinux_setup_pty:
> > > security_compute_relabel: Invalid argument
> > >
> > > If putting the system in permissive mode the connection was successful
> > but the
> > > security context after login was:
> > system_u:system_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023
> > > Any suggestions? Thanks in advance.
> > >
> > >
> > >
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> > You probably need to create /etc/selinux/targeted/context/user1 and user2
> >
> > Base these off of xguest
> >
> > I am not crazy about having home content variable between users, I think
> > this is a waste of time.  Others disagree.
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