Bug 1476911 - Dovecot pigeonhole sieve scripts can't run sa-learn
Summary: Dovecot pigeonhole sieve scripts can't run sa-learn
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Status: CLOSED EOL
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Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: dovecot
Version: 26
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Assignee: Michal Hlavinka
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Reported: 2017-07-31 19:19 UTC by Ed Marshall
Modified: 2018-05-29 11:53 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2018-05-29 11:53:39 UTC
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Description Ed Marshall 2017-07-31 19:19:11 UTC
Following along with Dovecot upstream's description of how to integrate SpamAssassin and Dovecot for automatic training when moving messages in and out of a spam folder:

https://wiki.dovecot.org/HowTo/AntispamWithSieve

I created a sieve script that pipes messages to a shell script which, after determining the dbpath to use, tries to invoke /usr/bin/sa-learn. Which fails with an AVC when selinux is enforcing:

Jul 31 19:05:24 mx.sfo2.do.logic.net audit[15931]: AVC avc:  denied  { getattr } for  pid=15931 comm="sa-learn.sh" path="/usr/bin/sa-learn" dev="vda1" ino=7175 scontext=system_u:system_r:dovecot_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:object_r:spamc_exec_t:s0 tclass=file permissive=0

The problem is, sieve can execute bin_t scripts just fine (in fact, that's all it can run), but SpamAssassin is special in that it has it's own exec_t types.

I'm not sure what the right fix here is (probably a one-off exception to the dovecot policy for spamc_exec_t? are there any other magic exec types that should be included as well?), or if there even should be a fix, but this seems like a reasonable enough use-case that I figured it was worth opening a ticket for.

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