Description of problem: I am trying to run ejabberd with PAM authentication, but SELinux shoots down PAM-related machinery during client authentication. I have the following in my /etc/ejabberd/ejabberd.conf: ---- >8 ---- {auth_method, pam}. {pam_service, "login"}. ---- 8< ---- SELinux is preventing /usr/sbin/unix_chkpwd from 'sendto' accesses on the unix_dgram_socket /dev/log. ***** Plugin catchall (100. confidence) suggests *************************** If you believe that unix_chkpwd should be allowed sendto access on the log unix_dgram_socket by default. Then you should report this as a bug. You can generate a local policy module to allow this access. Do allow this access for now by executing: # grep unix_chkpwd /var/log/audit/audit.log | audit2allow -M mypol # semodule -i mypol.pp Additional Information: Source Context system_u:system_r:rabbitmq_beam_t:s0 Target Context system_u:system_r:kernel_t:s0 Target Objects /dev/log [ unix_dgram_socket ] Source unix_chkpwd Source Path /usr/sbin/unix_chkpwd Port <Unknown> Host (removed) Source RPM Packages ejabberd-2.1.13-1.fc19.x86_64 Target RPM Packages Policy RPM selinux-policy-3.12.1-69.fc19.noarch Selinux Enabled True Policy Type targeted Enforcing Mode Enforcing Host Name (removed) Platform Linux (removed) 3.9.5-301.fc19.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jun 11 19:39:38 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 Alert Count 4 First Seen 2013-08-05 13:26:24 MSK Last Seen 2013-08-05 13:26:31 MSK Local ID e00cb572-6c91-4d8b-a851-818ada9b102c Raw Audit Messages type=AVC msg=audit(1375694791.126:2109): avc: denied { sendto } for pid=16249 comm="epam" path="/dev/log" scontext=system_u:system_r:rabbitmq_beam_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:system_r:kernel_t:s0 tclass=unix_dgram_socket type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1375694791.126:2109): arch=x86_64 syscall=connect success=no exit=EACCES a0=3 a1=7f4cfe67a740 a2=6e a3=59 items=0 ppid=16229 pid=16249 auid=4294967295 uid=991 gid=989 euid=0 suid=0 fsuid=0 egid=989 sgid=989 fsgid=989 ses=4294967295 tty=(none) comm=epam exe=/usr/lib64/ejabberd/priv/bin/epam subj=system_u:system_r:rabbitmq_beam_t:s0 key=(null) Hash: unix_chkpwd,rabbitmq_beam_t,kernel_t,unix_dgram_socket,sendto Additional info: reporter: libreport-2.1.6 hashmarkername: setroubleshoot kernel: 3.9.5-301.fc19.x86_64 type: libreport
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 992931 ***