On Thu, Sep 07, 2017 at 03:22:42PM +0200, Dominick Grift wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 07, 2017 at 08:55:23AM -0400, Stephen Smalley wrote:
> > On Thu, 2017-09-07 at 11:05 +0200, Dominick Grift wrote:
> > > pam_selinux requirements are generally pretty simple: its used to
> > > associate a context with a login shell.
> > > 
> > > With systemd things have becomes a bit more complicated.
> > > 
> > > systemd uses pam_selinux to associate a context with both a login
> > > shell (via container-shell@.service) as well as with a systemd --user 
> > > instance.
> > > 
> > > Ideally one would not associate a login shell context with a systemd
> > > --user instance because a systemd --user instance needs permissions
> > > that do not make sense for a login shell to have.
> > > 
> > > I am not aware of any way to make pam_selinux associate a context
> > > based on variable like for example: if its a login shell then
> > > associate this context , and if its a systemd --user instance then
> > > associate that context
> > > 
> > > This is an issue for me currently because if users are allowed to
> > > "host-shell" (machinectl shell .host) then they are able to open a
> > > shell with the context of the systemd --user instance and escape
> > > their shell restrictions
> > > 
> > > For now I can just block host-shell access with polkit but I am
> > > trying to figure out what it would take to address this challenge
> > > with pam_selinux
> > 
> > The logic for determining a security context from pam_selinux (using
> > libselinux get_ordered_context_with_level) can take the source/from
> > context (i.e. the context in which the caller of pam_selinux is running
> > ) into account as a factor in selecting which context to use, since it
> > checks reachability (transition permission) as part of
> > security_compute_user().  So that's a possible approach if you can
> > distinguish what contexts are reachable for systemd --user vs login
> > daemons.
> 
> The challenge here is that the source/from context is the same whether 
> systemd --system spawns a login shell on behalf of a login user or whether 
> systemd --system spawns a systemd --user instance on behalf of a login user
> 
> > 
> > What SELinux permissions are required to host-shell?  Can you block
> > that via SELinux policy rather than just polkit?
> 
> Might be possible but probably tricky. Not sure what it would take.
> 
> machinectl shell can also be used to spawn a shell in a container and this 
> doesnt use pam_selinux, only machinectl shell .host makes systemd --system 
> use pam_selinux to determine the pam characteristics to associate with the 
> login shell on the host for the user
> 
> So "machinectl shell $container" makes machinectl itself a shell in 
> $container (no pam), and "machinectl shell .host" makes machinectl tell 
> systemd --system to spawn a login shell on the host (where systemd --system 
> is using pam_selinux)
> 
> > 
> > Running machinectl shell .host locally doesn't seem to work:
> > $ machinectl shell .host
> > Failed to get shell PTY: Access denied
> 
> Probably SELinux blocking then?
> 
> $ id -Z
> wheel.id:wheel.role:wheel.subj:s0
> $ machinectl shell .host
> ==== AUTHENTICATING FOR org.freedesktop.machine1.host-shell ===
> Authentication is required to acquire a shell on the local host.
> Authenticating as: kcinimod
> Password:
> ==== AUTHENTICATION COMPLETE ===
> Connected to the local host. Press ^] three times within 1s to exit session
> # journalctl -rb
> sh: journalctl: command not found
> # bash
> # journalctl -rb | grep denied | head -n 1
> Sep 07 15:14:29 julius audit[1983]: AVC avc:  denied  { getattr } for  
> pid=1983 comm="sh" path="/usr/bin/journalctl" dev="dm-1" ino=2756183 
> scontext=sysadm.id:sysadm.role:sysadm_systemd.subj:s0 
> tcontext=sys.id:sys.role:journalctl.cmd_file:s0 tclass=file permissive=0
> # ps auxZ | grep sysadm_systemd.subj
> sysadm.id:sysadm.role:sysadm_systemd.subj:s0 root 1983 0.2  0.0 14452 4500 
> pts/4 Ss 15:14   0:00 -bin/sh
> sysadm.id:sysadm.role:sysadm_systemd.subj:s0 root 1988 0.2  0.0 82036 7956 ?  
>  Ss   15:14   0:00 /usr/lib/systemd/systemd --user
> 
> So systemd --system runs -bin/sh using its pam_selinux which tells it to 
> associate "sysadm_systemd.subj" with the login process, but that type is for 
> the systemd --user instance of this user
> then there is an automatic transition from sysadm_systemd.subj to sysadm.subj 
> on cmd.shell.cmd_file that eventually makes the transition work when manually 
> running bash
> 
> I put in that auto type transition (sysadm_systemd.subj > 
> (cmd.shell.cmd_file) -> sysadm.subj) not realizing that the shell initially 
> ends up with sysadm_systemd.subj via pam_selinux
> 
> So i should remove that auto type transition as well since i shouldnt end up 
> in sysadm_systemd.subj in the first place

So to answer your question as to whether i would be able to block this access 
without polkit:

Yes i would be able to do this by just not allowing the systemd --user 
instances to execute a shell

> 
> > 
> > Ideally, I'd like to get rid of security_compute_user() entirely, take
> > the logic for determining user context entirely to userspace, and
> > simplify it significantly, both in libselinux and in pam_selinux. 
> > That's been discussed previously on the list.
> > 
> 
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