Description of problem: Use of talk/ytalk is failing because the daemon in.ntalkd is being prevented from reading /var/run/utmp. Jan 10 10:51:43 station4 kernel: audit(1168451503.142:32): avc: denied { read } for pid=5885 comm="in.ntalkd" name="utmp" dev=sda6 ino=26529 scontext=root:system_r:inetd_child_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:object_r:initrc_var_run_t:s0 tclass=file Using: selinux-policy-targeted-2.4.6-17.fc6
Could you please execute setenforce 0 chcon -t ktalkd_exec_t /usr/sbin/in.talkd service xinetd restart Do your talk test. setenforce 1 And send me the avc messages.
/usr/sbin/in.talkd is a symlink to /usr/sbin/in.ntalkd Here are your messages you want: Jan 10 13:15:46 station8 kernel: audit(1168460146.105:13): avc: denied { getattr } for pid=11992 comm="in.ntalkd" name="tty1" dev=tmpfs ino=1431 scontext=root:system_r:ktalkd_t:s0 tcontext=root:object_r:tty_device_t:s0 tclass=chr_file Jan 10 13:15:46 station8 kernel: audit(1168460146.105:14): avc: denied { search } for pid=11992 comm="in.ntalkd" name="/" dev=devpts ino=1 scontext=root:system_r:ktalkd_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:object_r:devpts_t:s0 tclass=dir Jan 10 13:15:46 station8 kernel: audit(1168460146.105:15): avc: denied { getattr } for pid=11992 comm="in.ntalkd" name="1" dev=devpts ino=3 scontext=root:system_r:ktalkd_t:s0 tcontext=root:object_r:devpts_t:s0 tclass=chr_file Jan 10 13:15:46 station8 kernel: audit(1168460146.105:16): avc: denied { write } for pid=11998 comm="in.ntalkd" name="2" dev=devpts ino=4 scontext=root:system_r:ktalkd_t:s0 tcontext=root:object_r:devpts_t:s0 tclass=chr_file
Fixed in selinux-policy-2.4.6-25
Fixed in current release