Bug 449253 - Fetcmail prevented from running by policy change
Summary: Fetcmail prevented from running by policy change
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: fetchmail
Version: 9
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
medium
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Assignee: Vitezslav Crhonek
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-06-01 01:26 UTC by Scott Wilburn
Modified: 2009-07-14 18:24 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2009-07-14 18:24:59 UTC
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Description Scott Wilburn 2008-06-01 01:26:04 UTC
From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9b5) Gecko/2008043010 Fedora/3.0-0.60.beta5.fc9 Firefox/3.0b5

Description of problem:
Trying to run fetchmail is prevented from running by the latest targeted policy.

avc: denied { search } for pid=26279 comm="fetchmail" name="root" dev=sda3 ino=2646 scontext=unconfined_u:system_r:fetchmail_t:s0 tcontext=root:object_r:user_home_dir_t:s0 tclass=dir

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
selinux-policy-targeted-3.3.1-55.fc9.noarch

How reproducible:
Always


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Enable selinux in targeted enforcing mode.
2. Run fetchmail
3.

Actual Results:
Fetchmail fails, with avc denied message above.

Expected Results:
Fetchmail should run.

Additional info:
I am running fetchmail as root in daemon mode, but this appears to affect running it as a user as well.

Comment 1 Daniel Walsh 2008-06-02 17:35:13 UTC
Looks like a labeling problem on /root

restorecon -R -v /root



Comment 2 Scott Wilburn 2008-06-03 03:03:53 UTC
Thanks for the suggestion. It doesn't fix the problem though.

Comment 3 Scott Wilburn 2008-06-30 03:40:03 UTC
This appears to be a fetchmail bug, rather than selinux. Changing component to
fetchmail and reopening.

Despite giving an option -f '/etc/fetchmail.conf' for an alternate config file,
fetchmail still searches /root/ presumably for /root/.fetchmailrc 

Fetchmail should have no reason to search /root/ in this case.

Comment 4 Scott Wilburn 2008-09-01 14:50:18 UTC
Setting $HOME to something other that root (e.g /var/fetchmail) fixes this problem. This may not be a bug. Someone who knows fetchmail should comment on whether this is intended behavior or not.

Comment 5 Bug Zapper 2009-06-10 01:19:36 UTC
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Comment 6 Matthias Andree 2009-06-14 10:07:01 UTC
This fetchmail behaviour is intentional - fetchmail stores state information in the running user's home directory, namely .fetchmail.pid and/or .fetchids. See the manual page for the ENVIRONMENT section for HOME_ETC and FETCHMAILHOME and documentation, and for the --idfile and --pidfile options.

Note also that it's discouraged to run fetchmail as root.

Comment 7 Bug Zapper 2009-07-14 18:24:59 UTC
Fedora 9 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2009-07-10. Fedora 9 is 
no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further 
security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug.

If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of 
Fedora please feel free to reopen this bug against that version.

Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed.


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