Description of problem: Selinux is preventing milter-regex to create the needed socket file /var/spool/milter-regex/sock with "avc: denied { dac_override }" Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): milter-regex-2.2-1.fc29.x86_64 selinux-policy-3.14.2-48.fc29.noarch kernel-4.20.8-200.fc29.x86_64 How reproducible: Install fresh fedora29 system with milter-regex package. Steps to Reproduce: 1. dnf install milter-regex 2. systemctl start milter-regex.service Actual results: Job for milter-regex.service failed because the control process exited with error code. See "systemctl status milter-regex.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details. journalctl reports: milter-regex: Unable to bind to port unix:/var/spool/milter-regex/sock: Permission denied milter-regex: Unable to create listening socket on conn unix:/var/spool/milter-regex/sock Expected results: milter-regex creates the socket file /var/spool/milter-regex/sock Additional info: # ls -ldZ /var/spool/milter-regex/ drwxr-xr-x. 2 mregex mregex system_u:object_r:regex_milter_data_t:s0 6 Sep 27 11:36 /var/spool/milter-regex/ # ls -lZ /usr/sbin/milter-regex -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root system_u:object_r:regex_milter_exec_t:s0 49368 Sep 27 11:36 /usr/sbin/milter-regex ---- time->Sun Feb 17 20:21:04 2019 type=PROCTITLE msg=audit(1550431264.377:496): proctitle="/usr/sbin/milter-regex" type=PATH msg=audit(1550431264.377:496): item=1 name="/var/spool/milter-regex/sock" nametype=CREATE cap_fp=0000000000000000 cap_fi=0000000000000000 cap_fe=0 cap_fver=0 type=PATH msg=audit(1550431264.377:496): item=0 name="/var/spool/milter-regex/" inode=25688368 dev=fd:00 mode=040755 ouid=985 ogid=985 rdev=00:00 obj=system_u:object_r:regex_milter_data_t:s0 nametype=PARENT cap_fp=0000000000000000 cap_fi=0000000000000000 cap_fe=0 cap_fver=0 type=CWD msg=audit(1550431264.377:496): cwd="/" type=SOCKADDR msg=audit(1550431264.377:496): saddr=01002F7661722F73706F6F6C2F6D696C7465722D72656765782F736F636B0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1550431264.377:496): arch=c000003e syscall=49 success=no exit=-13 a0=4 a1=7ffd277f4fd0 a2=6e a3=fffffffffffff877 items=2 ppid=1 pid=26359 auid=4294967295 uid=0 gid=0 euid=0 suid=0 fsuid=0 egid=0 sgid=0 fsgid=0 tty=(none) ses=4294967295 comm="milter-regex" exe="/usr/sbin/milter-regex" subj=system_u:system_r:regex_milter_t:s0 key=(null) type=AVC msg=audit(1550431264.377:496): avc: denied { dac_override } for pid=26359 comm="milter-regex" capability=1 scontext=system_u:system_r:regex_milter_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:system_r:regex_milter_t:s0 tclass=capability permissive=0 ----
Easy workaround for me (based on information from https://danwalsh.livejournal.com/79643.html) is to change the owner of the /var/spool/milter-regex/ directory from 'mregex' to 'root'. But this should be fixed in the package itself.
milter-regex-2.2-3.fc30 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 30. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2019-2610d848f3
milter-regex-2.2-3.fc29 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 29. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2019-e3243a1930
milter-regex-2.2-3.fc28 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 28. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2019-609fdb3805
milter-regex-2.2-3.fc30 has been pushed to the Fedora 30 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for instructions on how to install test updates. You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2019-2610d848f3
milter-regex-2.2-3.fc28 has been pushed to the Fedora 28 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for instructions on how to install test updates. You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2019-609fdb3805
milter-regex-2.2-3.fc29 has been pushed to the Fedora 29 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for instructions on how to install test updates. You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2019-e3243a1930
milter-regex-2.2-3.fc30 has been pushed to the Fedora 30 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
milter-regex-2.2-3.fc28 has been pushed to the Fedora 28 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
milter-regex-2.2-3.fc29 has been pushed to the Fedora 29 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.