fedora-intune: query Defender through systemd-run instead of a snapshot
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The health snapshot's temp directory, chmod and mv in /run every 5
minutes showed up in Defender's timeline as "Data Staged" and
"Executable permissions were added". Drop the snapshot service and
timer. The compliance script now runs `mdatp health` through
systemd-run, so systemd starts mdatp and Defender answers it even when
the script runs inside himmelblaud-tasks. Without systemd-run access it
asks mdatp directly, as before. No image support needed, so the script
works on other distros as is.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Wesley van TilburgandClaude Opus 5.5 committed 2026-10-20 14:12:59 +00:00
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@@ -2,5 +2,3 @@
enable mdatp-firstboot.service
enable mdatp.service
enable mde_netfilter_v2.socket
# Health snapshot for the Intune compliance script.
enable mdatp-health-snapshot.timer
@@ -1,47 +0,0 @@
#!/usr/bin/env bash
# Save `mdatp health` fields to /run/mdatp-health/<field> for the Intune
# custom compliance script (intune/defender-compliance.sh).
#
# That script runs inside himmelblaud-tasks.service, and Defender refuses to
# answer it there: the daemon checks the calling process tree, can't read
# /proc/<himmelblaud_tasks pid>/cmdline ("Permission denied" in
# microsoft_defender_err.log), and the script sees no daemon. This runs from a
# timer outside that service instead. Each file holds the raw
# `mdatp health --field` output; the directory is replaced as a whole.
set -euo pipefail
MDATP=/usr/bin/mdatp
DEST=/run/mdatp-health
FIELDS=(
healthy
licensed
org_id
real_time_protection_enabled
behavior_monitoring
cloud_enabled
definitions_status
definitions_updated_minutes_ago
app_version
)
# Right after boot the daemon may not answer yet; give it up to 2 minutes so
# the first snapshot isn't a false "not running".
for _ in $(seq 1 24); do
[[ "$("${MDATP}" health --field healthy 2>/dev/null | tail -n1)" =~ ^(true|false)$ ]] && break
sleep 5
done
tmp="$(mktemp -d "${DEST}.XXXXXX")"
trap 'rm -rf "${tmp}"' EXIT
for field in "${FIELDS[@]}"; do
"${MDATP}" health --field "${field}" > "${tmp}/${field}" 2>/dev/null || true
done
chmod 0755 "${tmp}"
chmod 0644 "${tmp}"/*
# Swap in the new snapshot; readers see either the old or the new one.
rm -rf "${DEST}.old"
[[ -d "${DEST}" ]] && mv "${DEST}" "${DEST}.old"
mv "${tmp}" "${DEST}"
rm -rf "${DEST}.old"
trap - EXIT
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
[Unit]
Description=Save Microsoft Defender health for the Intune compliance check
After=mdatp.service
[Service]
Type=oneshot
ExecStart=/usr/libexec/mdatp-health-snapshot
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
[Unit]
Description=Save Microsoft Defender health every 5 minutes
[Timer]
# Early, so the compliance check at the first sign-in after boot finds a
# snapshot; Himmelblau doesn't check again for 8 hours.
OnBootSec=20s
OnUnitActiveSec=5min
[Install]
WantedBy=timers.target