Bug 702951

Summary: SELinux is preventing /usr/sbin/ssmtp from 'create' accesses on the file dead.letter.
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Tomáš Trnka <tomastrnka>
Component: selinux-policyAssignee: Miroslav Grepl <mgrepl>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 14CC: dwalsh, mgrepl
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Description Tomáš Trnka 2011-05-08 16:05:19 UTC
SELinux is preventing /usr/sbin/ssmtp from 'create' accesses on the file dead.letter.

*****  Plugin catchall (100. confidence) suggests  ***************************

If you believe that ssmtp should be allowed create access on the dead.letter file by default.
Then you should report this as a bug.
You can generate a local policy module to allow this access.
Do
allow this access for now by executing:
# grep sendmail /var/log/audit/audit.log | audit2allow -M mypol
# semodule -i mypol.pp

Additional Information:
Source Context                system_u:system_r:system_mail_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023
Target Context                system_u:object_r:mail_home_t:s0
Target Objects                dead.letter [ file ]
Source                        sendmail
Source Path                   /usr/sbin/ssmtp
Port                          <Neznámé>
Host                          (removed)
Source RPM Packages           ssmtp-2.61-15.fc14
Target RPM Packages           
Policy RPM                    selinux-policy-3.9.7-40.fc14
Selinux Enabled               True
Policy Type                   targeted
Enforcing Mode                Enforcing
Host Name                     (removed)
Platform                      Linux (removed) 2.6.35.13-91.fc14.x86_64 #1 SMP
                              Tue May 3 13:23:06 UTC 2011 x86_64 x86_64
Alert Count                   1
First Seen                    Ne 8. květen 2011, 18:01:41 CEST
Last Seen                     Ne 8. květen 2011, 18:01:41 CEST
Local ID                      1a473458-dad0-41e8-8b18-8d8177f2d2a4

Raw Audit Messages
type=AVC msg=audit(1304870501.324:23): avc:  denied  { create } for  pid=2512 comm="sendmail" name="dead.letter" scontext=system_u:system_r:system_mail_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 tcontext=system_u:object_r:mail_home_t:s0 tclass=file


type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1304870501.324:23): arch=x86_64 syscall=open success=no exit=EACCES a0=231f2f0 a1=441 a2=1b6 a3=0 items=0 ppid=2486 pid=2512 auid=0 uid=0 gid=0 euid=0 suid=0 fsuid=0 egid=0 sgid=0 fsgid=0 tty=(none) ses=2 comm=sendmail exe=/usr/sbin/ssmtp subj=system_u:system_r:system_mail_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 key=(null)

Hash: sendmail,system_mail_t,mail_home_t,file,create

audit2allow

#============= system_mail_t ==============
allow system_mail_t mail_home_t:file create;

audit2allow -R

#============= system_mail_t ==============
allow system_mail_t mail_home_t:file create;

Comment 1 Daniel Walsh 2011-05-09 15:08:59 UTC
Miroslav we have

allow system_mail_t mail_home_t:file manage_file_perms;


in F15

Comment 2 Miroslav Grepl 2011-05-10 08:30:37 UTC
I see this also in F14. 

Tomas,
could you try to reinstall policy

# yum reinstall selinux-policy-targeted

and make sure nothing blows up on reinstall.

Comment 3 Tomáš Trnka 2011-05-10 09:33:53 UTC
Sorry, my bad. Policy installation was failing on account of the pyzor module requiring some types from the spamassassin module that I'd disabled. Everything works now.

The selinux-policy-targeted package really should throw some kind of "the sky is falling" error when it the policy fails to build (apparently, it just prints a warning that never makes it through all the packagekit stuff).

(Also, the whole semodule system could use some kind of module dependency checking - if one module is disabled, automatically disable anything that depends on them instead of erroring out).

Comment 4 Miroslav Grepl 2011-05-10 10:16:25 UTC
We have some progress in F15 where we really have modular policy and only some modules are dependent. I guess either me or Dan will blog about that.