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Bug 729361 - SELinux prevents amanda from sending mail
Summary: SELinux prevents amanda from sending mail
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 718273
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Classification: Red Hat
Component: selinux-policy
Version: 6.1
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
low
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Miroslav Grepl
QA Contact: Milos Malik
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-08-09 16:39 UTC by Orion Poplawski
Modified: 2012-10-16 11:42 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2011-12-09 09:37:48 UTC
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Description Orion Poplawski 2011-08-09 16:39:02 UTC 
Description of problem:

At the end of a run, amanda sends mail of the log.  SELinux is preventing this.  In enforcing mode I see:

type=AVC msg=audit(1312901001.834:76457): avc:  denied  { append } for  pid=18183 comm="mail" path="/var/lib/amanda/Data/amdump" dev=dm-4 ino=527273 scontext=system_u:system_r:sendmail_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:object_r:amanda_var_lib_t:s0 tclass=file
type=AVC msg=audit(1312901001.834:76457): avc:  denied  { append } for  pid=18183 comm="mail" path="/var/lib/amanda/Data/amdump" dev=dm-4 ino=527273 scontext=system_u:system_r:sendmail_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:object_r:amanda_var_lib_t:s0 tclass=file
type=AVC msg=audit(1312901001.834:76457): avc:  denied  { read } for  pid=18183 comm="mail" path="/var/lib/amanda/Data/log" dev=dm-4 ino=527272 scontext=system_u:system_r:sendmail_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:object_r:amanda_var_lib_t:s0 tclass=file
type=AVC msg=audit(1312901001.951:76458): avc:  denied  { write } for  pid=18183 comm="mail" name="21680.1.amanda" dev=tmpfs ino=162693 scontext=system_u:system_r:sendmail_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:object_r:initrc_tmp_t:s0 tclass=dir

The third item is a leaked file descriptor.

The mail command is run from perl with:

open3($fh, ">&2", ">&2", @cmd);

So any output of the mail command is expected to go to the amdump log.  It appears that the mail command is not allowed to create it's temp file.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
selinux-policy-3.7.19-106.el6.noarch
amanda-3.3.0-2.el6.cora.1.x86_64
Comment 2 Miroslav Grepl 2011-08-11 12:32:45 UTC 
What AVC are you getting in permissive mode?
Comment 3 Orion Poplawski 2011-08-31 15:21:09 UTC 
Sorry for the delay, here we go:

type=AVC msg=audit(1314789994.636:948630): avc:  denied  { append } for  pid=14918 comm="mail" path="/var/lib/amanda/Data/amdump" dev=dm-4 ino=524886 scontext=system_u:system_r:sendmail_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:object_r:amanda_var_lib_t:s0 tclass=file
type=AVC msg=audit(1314789994.636:948630): avc:  denied  { read } for  pid=14918 comm="mail" path="/var/lib/amanda/Data/log" dev=dm-4 ino=524796 scontext=system_u:system_r:sendmail_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:object_r:amanda_var_lib_t:s0 tclass=file
type=AVC msg=audit(1314789995.443:948631): avc:  denied  { ioctl } for  pid=14918 comm="mail" path="/var/lib/amanda/Data/amdump" dev=dm-4 ino=524886 scontext=system_u:system_r:sendmail_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:object_r:amanda_var_lib_t:s0 tclass=file
type=AVC msg=audit(1314789995.443:948632): avc:  denied  { add_name } for  pid=14918 comm="mail" name="Rs7AM1VB" scontext=system_u:system_r:sendmail_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:object_r:initrc_tmp_t:s0 tclass=dir
type=AVC msg=audit(1314789995.443:948632): avc:  denied  { create } for  pid=14918 comm="mail" name="Rs7AM1VB" scontext=system_u:system_r:sendmail_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:object_r:initrc_tmp_t:s0 tclass=file
type=AVC msg=audit(1314789995.443:948633): avc:  denied  { setattr } for  pid=14918 comm="mail" name="Rs7AM1VB" dev=tmpfs ino=25852496 scontext=system_u:system_r:sendmail_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:object_r:initrc_tmp_t:s0 tclass=file
type=AVC msg=audit(1314789995.443:948634): avc:  denied  { remove_name } for  pid=14918 comm="mail" name="Rs7AM1VB" dev=tmpfs ino=25852496 scontext=system_u:system_r:sendmail_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:object_r:initrc_tmp_t:s0 tclass=dir
type=AVC msg=audit(1314789995.443:948634): avc:  denied  { unlink } for  pid=14918 comm="mail" name="Rs7AM1VB" dev=tmpfs ino=25852496 scontext=system_u:system_r:sendmail_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:object_r:initrc_tmp_t:s0 tclass=file
type=AVC msg=audit(1314789997.411:948635): avc:  denied  { getattr } for  pid=14921 comm="sendmail" path="/var/lib/amanda/Data/amdump" dev=dm-4 ino=524886 scontext=system_u:system_r:sendmail_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:object_r:amanda_var_lib_t:s0 tclass=file
Comment 4 Miroslav Grepl 2011-09-06 12:34:04 UTC 
Any idea who creates name="Rs7AM1VB" file with initrc_tmp_t context? 

This means the file is created by an init script or a domain running as initrc_t.
Comment 5 Orion Poplawski 2011-09-06 14:44:21 UTC 
This dovetails nicely with our grid work - the backup jobs are being run as grid jobs and the grid daemons (and the backup scripts) are running as initrc_t.  I'll installed the grid policy on this machine as well and see what changes.
Comment 6 Miroslav Grepl 2011-09-08 12:04:35 UTC 
Ok, this relates with grid jobs.
Comment 8 Miroslav Grepl 2011-12-09 09:37:48 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 718273 ***
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