Bug 250192 – SELinux prevents cyrus-imapd from connecting to saslauthd

Bug 250192 - SELinux prevents cyrus-imapd from connecting to saslauthd

Summary:	SELinux prevents cyrus-imapd from connecting to saslauthd

Status:	CLOSED INSUFFICIENT_DATA

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Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Classification:	Red Hat
Component:	cyrus-imapd (Show other bugs)
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Version:	5.0
Hardware:	All Linux

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Assigned To:	Tomas Janousek
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Reported:	2007-07-30 18:36 EDT by Nathaniel McCallum
Modified:	2008-01-15 09:57 EST (History)
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Last Closed:	2008-01-15 09:57:15 EST
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Description Nathaniel McCallum 2007-07-30 18:36:26 EDT

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 07:33:24 EDT

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 09:52:18 EDT

Ping?

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