Description of problem: Exim can't authenticate, while SELinux is active, using dovecot's auth socket Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): exim-4.76-2.fc15.x86_64 How reproducible: Follow this howto: http://wiki.dovecot.org/HowTo/EximAndDovecotSASL Actual results: type=AVC msg=audit(1317445107.977:19759): avc: denied { search } for pid=14175 comm="exim" name="dovecot" dev=tmpfs ino=10537 scontext=system_u:system_r:exim_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:object_r:dovecot_var_run_t:s0 tclass=dir type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1317445107.977:19759): arch=c000003e syscall=42 success=no exit=-13 a0=5 a1=7fffaf3152e0 a2=6e a3=ffffffff items=0 ppid=1068 pid=14175 auid=4294967295 uid=93 gid=93 euid=93 suid=93 fsuid=93 egid=93 sgid=93 fsgid=93 tty=(none) ses=4294967295 comm="exim" exe="/usr/sbin/exim" subj=system_u:system_r:exim_t:s0 key=(null) Expected results: successful authentication. Additional info: IMHO, exim should be allowed to read /var/run/dovecot/auth-client Should this be provided by you or by the exim packager?
Fixed in selinux-policy-3.9.16-43.fc15
selinux-policy-3.9.16-50.fc15 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 15. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/selinux-policy-3.9.16-50.fc15
Package selinux-policy-3.9.16-50.fc15: * should fix your issue, * was pushed to the Fedora 15 testing repository, * should be available at your local mirror within two days. Update it with: # su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing selinux-policy-3.9.16-50.fc15' as soon as you are able to. Please go to the following url: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2011-17089/selinux-policy-3.9.16-50.fc15 then log in and leave karma (feedback).
selinux-policy-3.9.16-50.fc15 has been pushed to the Fedora 15 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.