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freeslkr wrote:
> freeslkr <freeslkr.wl6x <at> mailnull.com> writes:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm trying out SELinux on Fedora 8 in permissive mode. I get AVCs
>> everytime postfix delivers mail to the maildir directories. It looks
>> like postfix doesn't have permission to create files. For example,
>>
>> from /var/log/messages:
>>
>> SELinux is preventing local (postfix_local_t) "link" to
>> ./1208923427.P3686.myhost (mail_spool_t)
>>
>> from /var/log/audit/audit.log:
>>
>> type=AVC msg=audit(1208923427.350:95): avc: denied { link } for
>> pid=3686 comm="local" name="1208923427.P3686.myhost" dev=dm-3
>> ino=819271 scontext=system_u:system_r:postfix_local_t:s0
>> tcontext=system_u:object_r:mail_spool_t:s0 tclass=file
>>
>> type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1208923427.350:95): arch=c000003e
>> syscall=86 success=yes exit=0 a0=2aaaaad599c0 a1=2aaaaad59ba0
>> a2=0 a3=0 items=0 ppid=2371 pid=3686 auid=4294967295 uid=0 gid=0
>> euid=1000 suid=0 fsuid=1000 egid=1000 sgid=0 fsgid=1000 tty=(none)
>> comm="local" exe="/usr/libexec/postfix/local"
>> subj=system_u:system_r:postfix_local_t:s0 key=(null)
>>
>> Is my interpretation correct. If so, is it likely that this could be
>> corrected in a future policy version?
>>
>> Thank you for you help
>
> I'll first note that reverting to mbox files in /var/spool/mail works
> just fine.
>
> Blundering along here ...
>
> file:///usr/share/doc/selinux-policy-3.0.8/html/services_postfix.html
> says
>
> allow_postfix_local_write_mail_spool
> Default value: false
> Description: Allow postfix_local domain full write access to mail_spool
> directories
>
> This sounds like what I need. But, it seems that it's already set.
>
> $ getsebool allow_postfix_local_write_mail_spool
> allow_postfix_local_write_mail_spool --> on
>
> $ cd /var/spool
> $ ls -Zd mail
> drwxrwxr-x root mail system_u:object_r:mail_spool_t:s0 mail
>
> $ ls -Zd mail/*
> drwxrwx--- XXXX mail system_u:object_r:mail_spool_t:s0 mail/XXXX
>
> $ ls -Zd mail/*/*
> drwxrwx--- XXXX mail system_u:object_r:mail_spool_t:s0 mail/XXXX/cur
> drwxrwx--- XXXX mail system_u:object_r:mail_spool_t:s0 mail/XXXX/new
> drwxrwx--- XXXX mail system_u:object_r:mail_spool_t:s0 mail/XXXX/tmp
>
> $ ls -Z mail/*/*/new
> -rw------- XXXX XXXX system_u:object_r:mail_spool_t:s0
> 1209227463.Vfd03Ic8046M24695.myhost
>
> To me, it _looks_ postfix should be able to create new files in
> /var/spool/mail/*/*, but this is being denied.
>
> In the selinux-policy source rpm, there are three files that seem to be
> related to postfix: postfix.{fc,if,te}. Obviously, I don't understand how
> all of this works, but there are no direct references to mail_spool_t or
> /var/spool/mail or /var/mail in these files.
>
> /var/spool/postfix has type postfix_spool_t, so naively I try
>
> $ chcon --recursive --type postfix_spool_t /var/spool/mail
>
> but that causes numerous AVC denied messages.
>
> Using audit2allow:
>
> $ grep -e postfix -e mail /var/log/audit/audit.log | audit2allow
> #============= postfix_local_t ==============
> allow postfix_local_t mail_spool_t:file link;
>
> Now, if I can just figure out what to do with this .... Thanks to anyone
> that shares some insight here.
>
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Also I believe this is fixed in selinux-policy-3.0.8-108
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