From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050721 CentOS/1.0.6-1.4.1.centos4 Firefox/1.0.6 Description of problem: I've configured squid to check passwords using SASL like this: # grep 'sasl_auth' /etc/squid/squid.conf auth_param basic program /usr/lib/squid/sasl_auth # cat /usr/lib/sasl2/squid_sasl_auth.conf pwcheck_method: saslauthd However, SELinux is blocking Squid's sasl_auth module from connecting to saslauthd's socket: Aug 17 15:51:09 t112 kernel: audit(1124311869.679:0): avc: denied { write } for pid=6417 comm=sasl_auth name=mux dev=dm-3 ino=180280 scontext=root:system_r:squid_t tcontext=root:object_r:var_run_t tclass=sock_file Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): selinux-policy-targeted-1.17.30-2.88 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. configure squid and sasl_auth as described above Additional info:
Just a small note. sasl_auth is not a "loadable module". It is stand-alone helper application (runs as separate process, started by Squid). So it is sufficient for sasl_auth process to have access to saslauthd's socket. Squid itself does not need access to it.
Fixed in U2.