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  1. MariaDB Server
  2. MDEV-36721

remove PrivateDevices=false from systemd services

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    • Bug
    • Status: In Review (View Workflow)
    • Major
    • Resolution: Unresolved
    • 10.11
    • 10.11
    • Packaging
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    Description

      PrivateDevices=false was added to the systemd service files of MariaDB dd93028dae with a comment that private devices implies no new privileges. The case where this was evident was in the PAM tests of MariaDB.

      Per MDEV-13207 and by inference Debian bug 911152 there was a the time s kernel fault that resulted in this behaviours.

      As PrivateDevices=true is the default of a systemd service we can remove the security disabling directive. Note it is possible to configure InnoDB to use raw devices, its barely documented and I haven't seen cases where its used, however its worth a release notes saying if this is the case, a user will need to configure an override to set PrivateDevices=false.

      RHEL8 tests where manually tested to have have a correctly functioning PAM with this removed. bb-10.11-systemd-remove-privatedevices-pkgtest tests the rest of this.

      Also tested locally on RHEL8 only was the 1e160e5cb387 which disabled NoNewPrivileges=true. NoNewPrivileges still disables the PAM helper, and even with a selinux rule of below wasn't sufficient for the pam helper to function correctly so this directive will remain.

      draft selinux rule enabling nnp for mysqld_t to the chkpwd_t used by unix_pam

      module mariadb_pam 1.0;
       
      require {
      	type chkpwd_t;
      	type mysqld_t;
      	class process2 nnp_transition;
      }
       
      #============= mysqld_t ==============
      allow mysqld_t chkpwd_t:process2 nnp_transition;
      

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              serg Sergei Golubchik
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