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Description of problem:
See below

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
selinux-policy-targeted-1.23.18-12

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Create a Linux user account.  (My user ID is 'pilcher').        

2.  Connect to PostgreSQL as the superuser (postgres) and create a PostgreSQL
    database and user:

        CREATE USER pilcher NOCREATEDB NOCREATEUSER;
        CREATE DATABASE pilcher OWNER pilcher;

3.  Add the following line at the top of /var/lib/pgsql/data/pg_hba.conf:

        host    pilcher pilcher 127.0.0.1/32    ident   sameuser
        
3.  Restart PostgreSQL to make the changes effective:

        service postgresql restart

4.  Ensure that authd and xinetd are both installed and turned on.

5.  Turn off authd encryption (PostgreSQL doesn't support it).  Edit
    /etc/xinetd.d/auth and remove and '-E' option from the in.authd command
    line.

6.  Restart xinetd ('service xinetd restart').

7.  Logged on as Linux user 'pilcher', try to connect to the new database over
    the loopback adapter:

        psql -h localhost pilcher
  

Actual Results:  psql: FATAL:  Ident authentication failed for user "pilcher"

The following entries appear in /var/log/audit/audit.log:

type=SOCKETCALL msg=audit(1119466873.728:967800): nargs=3 a0=3 a1=9f51998 a2=10

type=SOCKADDR msg=audit(1119466873.728:967800): saddr=020000717F0000010000000000000000

type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1119466873.728:967800): arch=40000003 syscall=102 success=no exit=-13 a0=3 a1=bfd7de00 a2=bfd7ec44 a3=bfd7ec64 items=0 pid=2735 auid=4294967295 uid=26 gid=26 euid=26 suid=26 fsuid=26 egid=26 sgid=26 fsgid=26 comm="postmaster" exe="/usr/bin/postgres"

type=AVC msg=audit(1119466873.728:967800): avc:  denied  { name_connect } for  pid=2735 comm="postmaster" dest=113 scontext=system_u:system_r:postgresql_t tcontext=system_u:object_r:inetd_child_port_t tclass=tcp_socket

Expected Results:  Connection should have succeeded.  (SELinux should at least have allowed
PostgreSQL to connect to 127.0.0.1:113.)

Additional info: