agent: add chrony supplementary group so it can read tracking.log (DAC)
The tracking.log read was still returning empty under enforcing with NO AVC —
the tell of a DAC (not SELinux) denial. Root cause: /var/log/chrony is mode
0750 chrony:chrony (others have no access), so the agent's DynamicUser (group
tss only) can't even traverse the directory to reach the 0644 tracking.log —
EACCES on open, which produces no audit record. Manager confirmed genuinely on
fleet-manager-1db3977 (chrony-capable), and uptime flowed while chrony didn't,
proving the agent was sending empty chrony (failed read), not a manager gap.
Earlier manual reads worked only as root (sudo) or because fleetadmin had been
usermod'd into chrony during the socket test (reverted on reboot — /etc/group
is on the volatile overlay).
Fix: SupplementaryGroups=tss chrony on the unit — the chrony group has r-x on
the 0750 dir so the agent can traverse it; the log file is world-readable. This
is the DAC half; the fleet_agent_chronylog SELinux module (02a6621) is the TE
half — BOTH are required (verified: group-only -> TE-denied; module-only ->
DAC-denied silently). Corrected the now-stale 'no group' code comment; recorded
the two-layer requirement in the .te and stig-deviations #16. Needs a
workstation image rebuild + reboot.
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@@ -275,6 +275,15 @@ reach it. No write, no other chrony access, and — unlike the earlier abandoned
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approach — **no domain transition** (the agent reads a file; it does not exec
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`chronyc`). This replaces the never-shipped `fleet_agent_chronyc` nnp-transition
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module (that whole command-socket path was dropped for reading the log instead).
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**This is the SELinux half of a two-layer requirement.** `/var/log/chrony` is
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mode `0750 chrony:chrony` (others have no access), so DAC also blocks the agent's
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`DynamicUser` from traversing the dir — a denial that produces **no AVC** (it's
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DAC, not TE). The DAC half is therefore the **`chrony` supplementary group** on
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`fleet-agent.service` (traverse the `0750` dir; the log file itself is `0644`).
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Both this module and that group are needed; verified 2026-07-10 — with the group
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but no module the read is TE-denied, and with the module but no group it's
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DAC-denied (silently, no AVC — which is what made this the hardest layer to spot).
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**BENCH-VERIFY:** (a) the manager's Monitor chrony row populates on an enforcing
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boot; (b) no other chrony-log AVC (extend here if one appears); (c)
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**reproducibility** — `semodule -i` rebuilds the policy store, re-check verity hash
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@@ -16,10 +16,16 @@ Restart=always
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RestartSec=5
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# --- sandboxing (STIG-friendly; looser than hostapi — needs the TPM + egress) ---
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# Runs as a transient unprivileged user in the tss group for /dev/tpmrm0 (the
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# private key stays in the TPM; the agent only signs the TLS handshake through it).
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# Runs as a transient unprivileged user. Groups:
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# tss — /dev/tpmrm0 (the private key stays in the TPM; the agent only signs
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# the TLS handshake through it).
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# chrony — TRAVERSE /var/log/chrony to read tracking.log for the clock-health
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# probe. That dir is mode 0750 chrony:chrony (others have no access), so
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# DAC needs group membership to even enter it — a bare 0644 on the log
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# file isn't enough. (SELinux read of the chronyd_var_log_t label is a
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# SEPARATE layer, granted by the fleet_agent_chronylog module.)
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DynamicUser=yes
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SupplementaryGroups=tss
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SupplementaryGroups=tss chrony
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# Expose ONLY the TPM resource-manager node (no PrivateDevices — that would hide it).
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DeviceAllow=/dev/tpmrm0 rw
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DevicePolicy=closed
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@@ -314,10 +314,12 @@ const chronyLogPath = "/var/log/chrony/tracking.log"
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// We read a FILE rather than query chronyd's command socket by design: that unix
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// socket is owner-write-only (0755) so the hardened non-root agent (DynamicUser,
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// not the chrony user) can't connect, and STIG closes the UDP command port
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// (cmdport 0). `log tracking` writes the same fields to a world-readable log the
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// agent can read under ProtectSystem=strict — no port, no socket, no group, no
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// SELinux domain transition. Tradeoff: the offset is as fresh as chrony's last
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// update (up to ~maxpoll old), which is fine for a slow-moving health metric.
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// (cmdport 0). `log tracking` writes the same fields to this log and no domain
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// transition is needed. Two access layers must both be satisfied (the unit does):
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// the chrony group to TRAVERSE /var/log/chrony (0750) at the DAC layer, and the
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// fleet_agent_chronylog SELinux module to read the chronyd_var_log_t label under
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// enforcing. Tradeoff: the offset is as fresh as chrony's last update (up to
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// ~maxpoll old), which is fine for a slow-moving health metric.
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func chronyTracking() chrony {
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b, err := os.ReadFile(chronyLogPath)
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if err != nil {
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@@ -18,10 +18,13 @@ module fleet_agent_chronylog 1.0.0;
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#
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# This grants ONLY read (open/read/getattr) on the chrony log type plus dir search
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# to reach the file — no write, no other chrony access, and NO domain transition
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# (the agent reads a file; it does not exec chronyc). Minimal + auditable;
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# justified in docs/stig-deviations.md #16. BENCH-VERIFY: the manager's Monitor
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# chrony row populates on an enforcing boot; extend here only if a related chrony
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# log AVC appears. Same policy-store-rebuild reproducibility caveat as #14/#15.
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# (the agent reads a file; it does not exec chronyc). This is the SELinux (TE)
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# half; the DAC half is the `chrony` supplementary group in fleet-agent.service,
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# needed to traverse the 0750 /var/log/chrony dir — BOTH are required to read the
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# log. Minimal + auditable; justified in docs/stig-deviations.md #16. BENCH-VERIFY:
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# the manager's Monitor chrony row populates on an enforcing boot; extend here only
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# if a related chrony log AVC appears. Same policy-store-rebuild reproducibility
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# caveat as #14/#15.
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########################################
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require {
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