Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 449253
Fetcmail prevented from running by policy change
Last modified: 2009-07-14 14:24:59 EDT
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.
Looks like a labeling problem on /root restorecon -R -v /root
Thanks for the suggestion. It doesn't fix the problem though.
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.
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.
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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.
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