Bug 147466

Summary:	Policy for Mailman too strict about temporary files
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Alberto Barbati <abarbati>
Component:	selinux-policy-targeted	Assignee:	Daniel Walsh <dwalsh>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
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Priority:	medium
Version:	3	CC:	djuran
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Hardware:	i386
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users@python.org/msg29980.html
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Fixed In Version:	RHBA-2005-251	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Description Alberto Barbati 2005-02-08 10:16:17 UTC

Description of problem:
Mailman is not able to create temporary files when accessed through
the web interface because of a too strict SELinux policy. This fact
disallows certain features, such as importing a list a members.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
selinux-policy-targeted-1.17.30-2.75
mailman-2.1.5-26
python-2.3.4-13.1
httpd-2.0.52-3.1

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to Mailman web interface
2. Add a few members to a list   

Actual Results:  The operation will fail with a python tracedump. The
most relevant message is the following:

IOError: [Errno 2] No usable temporary directory found in ['/tmp',
'/var/tmp', '/usr/tmp', '/usr/lib/mailman/cgi-bin']

Expected Results:  The operation should succeed without errors.

Additional info:

A quick workaround is to add these two lines to
/etc/selinux/targeted/src/policy/domains/misc/local.te

allow mailman_cgi_t tmp_t:dir rw_dir_perms;
allow mailman_cgi_t tmp_t:file create_file_perms;

and then do a "make reload"

This bug is probably related with bug #146890.

Comment 1 Daniel Walsh 2005-02-09 15:12:18 UTC

Fixed in selinux-policy-targeted-1.17.30-2.80

Comment 2 David Juran 2005-06-01 13:04:09 UTC

I see this issue on RHEL4 with selinux-policy-targeted-1.17.30-2.52.1 and
mailman-2.1.5-33.rhel4 as well.

Comment 3 Daniel Walsh 2005-06-02 12:03:35 UTC

Please update the the u1 policy files in 
ftp://people.redhat.com/dwalsh/SELinux/RHEL4/u1/

These should fix your problems.

Comment 4 David Juran 2005-06-07 12:20:22 UTC

Yes, selinux-policy-targeted-1.17.30-2.88 solves the problem (-:

Comment 5 Tim Powers 2005-06-09 13:06:17 UTC

An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2005-251.html