Bug 250192 - SELinux prevents cyrus-imapd from connecting to saslauthd
Summary: SELinux prevents cyrus-imapd from connecting to saslauthd
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Status: CLOSED INSUFFICIENT_DATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Classification: Red Hat
Component: cyrus-imapd
Version: 5.0
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Tomas Janousek
QA Contact: Brian Brock
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2007-07-30 22:36 UTC by Nathaniel McCallum
Modified: 2008-01-15 14:57 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2008-01-15 14:57:15 UTC
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Description Nathaniel McCallum 2007-07-30 22:36:26 UTC 
I have cyrus-imapd configured to use saslauthd for authentication (the default
configuration).  For some reason, the imapd process cannot connect to the
saslauthd daemon.  The log says:
kernel: audit(1185169605.092:25): avc:  denied  { connectto } for  pid=3730
comm="imapd" name="mux" scontext=root:system_r:cyrus_t:s0
tcontext=root:system_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 tclass=unix_stream_socket

'ls -Z /var/run/saslauthd/mux' shows:
srwxrwxrwx  root root system_u:object_r:saslauthd_var_run_t /var/run/saslauthd/mux

'allow cyrus_t unconfined_t:unix_stream_socket connectto;' permits me to
workaround this issue.
Comment 1 Tomas Janousek 2007-08-15 11:33:24 UTC 
Why is saslauthd running as unconfined_t?  Did you run it by hand, ie outside
the init script?

If it runs within the init script this should work.
Comment 2 Tomas Janousek 2007-10-15 13:52:18 UTC 
Ping?
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