Bug 853721 - selinux prevents spamass-milter from starting when using postfix
Summary: selinux prevents spamass-milter from starting when using postfix
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: selinux-policy
Version: 17
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Miroslav Grepl
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-09-02 12:02 UTC by Sjoerd Mullender
Modified: 2012-09-21 23:59 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2012-09-21 23:59:56 UTC
Type: Bug
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Description Sjoerd Mullender 2012-09-02 12:02:16 UTC
Description of problem:
The spamass-milter configuration for postfix in spamass-milter-postfix tries to set the group for the socket file to "postfix" using a -g option in the file /etc/sysconfig/spamass-milter-postfix.  SELinux prevents spamass-milter from starting because it doesn't have access to the /etc/group file, so it can't translate the group name to group id.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
spamass-milter-postfix-0.3.2-6.fc17.noarch
selinux-policy-targeted-3.10.0-146.fc17.noarch

How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1.install and configure postfix, spamass-milter-postfix
2.systemctl start spamass-milter
3.
  
Actual results:
spamass-milter fails to start (see /var/log/messages and systemctl status spamass-milter).

Expected results:
spamass-milter up and running

Additional info:
I was forced to turn off selinux because I had to get email working.

Relevant log messages:
audit log:
type=SERVICE_START msg=audit(1346581209.612:25102): pid=1 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 subj=system_u:system_r:init_t:s0 msg=' comm="spamass-milter" exe="/usr/lib/systemd/systemd" hostname=? addr=? terminal=? res=success'
type=AVC msg=audit(1346581209.635:25103): avc:  denied  { read } for  pid=14930 comm="spamass-milter" name="group" dev="sda2" ino=61104 scontext=system_u:system_r:spamass_milter_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:object_r:passwd_file_t:s0 tclass=file
type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1346581209.635:25103): arch=c000003e syscall=2 success=no exit=-13 a0=7fbad80b16bf a1=80000 a2=1b6 a3=238 items=0 ppid=1 pid=14930 auid=4294967295 uid=991 gid=987 euid=991 suid=991 fsuid=991 egid=987 sgid=987 fsgid=987 tty=(none) ses=4294967295 comm="spamass-milter" exe="/usr/sbin/spamass-milter" subj=system_u:system_r:spamass_milter_t:s0 key=(null)
type=SERVICE_STOP msg=audit(1346581209.663:25104): pid=1 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 subj=system_u:system_r:init_t:s0 msg=' comm="spamass-milter" exe="/usr/lib/systemd/systemd" hostname=? addr=? terminal=? res=failed'

messages log:
Sep  2 12:20:09 taling spamass-milter[14930]: group option, getgrnam: Permission denied
Sep  2 12:20:09 taling systemd[1]: spamass-milter.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=67
Sep  2 12:20:09 taling systemd[1]: Unit spamass-milter.service entered failed state.
Sep  2 12:20:10 taling setroubleshoot: SELinux is preventing /usr/sbin/spamass-milter from read access on the file /etc/group. For complete SELinux messages. run sealert -l c19a2da6-a410-43ca-8bf1-a30c7274dd06

Comment 1 Paul Howarth 2012-09-03 08:36:57 UTC
milter.te needs this to support operation with postfix:

# Look up group name (needed by spamass-milter-postfix) (#853721)
auth_use_nsswitch(spamass_milter_t)

I've tested this locally and the daemon starts successfully with this addition to policy.

Comment 2 Miroslav Grepl 2012-09-03 17:19:21 UTC
Thank you. Added.

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2012-09-17 12:14:17 UTC
selinux-policy-3.10.0-149.fc17 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 17.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/selinux-policy-3.10.0-149.fc17

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2012-09-19 02:55:52 UTC
Package selinux-policy-3.10.0-149.fc17:
* should fix your issue,
* was pushed to the Fedora 17 testing repository,
* should be available at your local mirror within two days.
Update it with:
# su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing selinux-policy-3.10.0-149.fc17'
as soon as you are able to.
Please go to the following url:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2012-14301/selinux-policy-3.10.0-149.fc17
then log in and leave karma (feedback).

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2012-09-21 23:59:56 UTC
selinux-policy-3.10.0-149.fc17 has been pushed to the Fedora 17 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.


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