Bug 283971
| Summary: | selinux policy prevents amanda talking to ldap server | ||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | Reporter: | Ian Young <ian> |
| Component: | selinux-policy | Assignee: | Daniel Walsh <dwalsh> |
| Status: | CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 5.0 | CC: | dwalsh, mmalik |
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| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | 5.1 | Doc Type: | Bug Fix |
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| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2008-03-05 22:01:20 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Fixed in selinux-policy-2.4.6-91 |
Description of problem: On a system which takes authentication from an external LDAP server, the targeted policy prevents the amandad backup application from authenticating, resulting in failed backups. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 2.4.6-30 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. set up a system that uses LDAP for authentication 2. set selinux to enforcing 3. observe backups failing Actual results: From /var/log/messages: Sep 9 01:05:31 shib setroubleshoot: SELinux is preventing /usr/lib/amanda/amandad (amanda_t) "name_connect" access to <Unknown> (ldap_port_t). For complete SELinux messages. run sealert -l 5979c07b-a74f-4dcf-9439-996ed4b0414b Sep 9 01:05:31 shib last message repeated 2 times Sep 9 01:05:32 shib amandad: nss_ldap: failed to bind to LDAP server <elided>: Can't contact LDAP server Sep 9 01:05:32 shib amandad: nss_ldap: reconnecting to LDAP server (sleeping 8 seconds)... Additional info: Extract from sealert -l: Source Context system_u:system_r:amanda_t Target Context system_u:object_r:ldap_port_t Target Objects None [ tcp_socket ] Affected RPM Packages amanda-client-2.5.0p2-4 [application] Policy RPM selinux-policy-2.4.6-30.el5 Selinux Enabled True Policy Type targeted MLS Enabled True Enforcing Mode Enforcing Plugin Name plugins.disable_trans Host Name shib.cs.iay.org.uk Platform Linux shib.cs.iay.org.uk 2.6.18-8.1.8.el5 #1 SMP Tue Jul 10 06:50:22 EDT 2007 i686 i686 Alert Count 55 Line Numbers Raw Audit Messages avc: denied { name_connect } for comm="amandad" dest=389 egid=6 euid=33 exe="/usr/lib/amanda/amandad" exit=-13 fsgid=6 fsuid=33 gid=6 items=0 pid=31779 scontext=system_u:system_r:amanda_t:s0 sgid=6 subj=system_u:system_r:amanda_t:s0 suid=33 tclass=tcp_socket tcontext=system_u:object_r:ldap_port_t:s0 tty=(none) uid=33