SELinux preventing fdisk from working when called by sudo with a user with staff_t role

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • fdisk -l command is not listing any output in SELinux enforcing mode
  • SELinux preventing the ability to run disk utility commands when called with sudo
type=AVC msg=audit(1381637281.396:18852): avc:  denied  { read } for  pid=1184 comm="fdisk" name="sdb1" dev=devtmpfs ino=173629 scontext=staff_u:staff_r:staff_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023
  • User has the staff_r role and sysadm_r role with sudo:
[user@rhel6 ~]$ id -Z 
staff_u:staff_r:staff_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023
[user@rhel6 ~]$ sudo id -Z
staff_u:sysadm_r:sysadm_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

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