SELinux Blocking LDAP Connections
Justin Willmert
justin at jdjlab.com
Wed Jun 29 17:24:22 UTC 2005
Stephen Smalley wrote:
>On Tue, 2005-06-28 at 18:22 -0500, Justin Willmert wrote:
>
>
>>Does anybody know of any problems with the new SELinux installed in
>>Fedora Core 4? I have OpenLDAP 2.2.23-5 installed and use it for my user
>>accounts. Fedora (throught the system-auth PAM module and nsswitch) will
>>log in correctly, but dovecot (version 0.99.14-4.fc4) and apache
>>(version 2.0.54-10) cannot connect to the ldap server when SELinux is
>>enabled. I use dovecot-ldap.conf for dovecot to get the users and their
>>home directories. In Apache, I use basic authentication through LDAP to
>>protect a WebDAV accessible folder. For a long time, I thought Dovecot
>>wasn't working correctly, but after I set up Apache and it too didn't
>>work with OpenLDAP, I came to think that SELinux is blocking something.
>>Now the problem is I am not well enough informed about SELinux to be
>>able to debug where the problem may reside.
>>
>>This is the message I get in /var/log/maillog when SELinux is enabled:
>> Jun 28 17:21:14 netserv dovecot-auth: LDAP: ldap_result() failed:
>>Can't contact LDAP server
>>
>>And this is the error I get in /etc/httpd/logs/mydomain.com-error_log
>> [Tue Jun 28 17:21:37 2005] [warn] [client 192.168.1.1] [5962]
>>auth_ldap authenticate: user myuser authentication failed; URI
>>/calendars/ [LDAP: ldap_simple_bind_s() failed][Can't contact LDAP server]
>>
>>I can get you SELinux contexts for certain files if you need them, but I
>>don't have a clue on which ones to include.
>>
>>
>
>Look in /var/log/audit/audit.log, particularly for messages with the
>type=AVC prefix. SELinux permission denials are now logged there by the
>audit daemon (previously they would go to /var/log/messages). And
>report them to fedora-selinux-list.
>
>
>
Ok. I've been told (as you can see above) to report this problem to this
list instead of fedora-list (Just used a mailing list for the first time
yesterday, so I'm still learning about them). As you can see above, I'm
having a problem with SELinux and Dovecot and Apache. After looking
through my audit.log file, these are the lines I thought were most
important.
This is what I found concerning apache:
type=AVC msg=audit(1119048563.037:3670666): avc: denied {
name_connect } for pid=6051 comm="httpd" dest=389
scontext=root:system_r:httpd_t
tcontext=system_u:object_r:ldap_port_t tclass=tcp_socket
type=SOCKETCALL msg=audit(1119048563.054:3670776): nargs=3 a0=19
a1=8347e80 a2=10
type=SOCKADDR msg=audit(1119048563.054:3670776):
saddr=02000185C0A801940000000000000000
type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1119048563.054:3670776): arch=40000003
syscall=102 success=no exit=-13 a0=3 a1=bfcf1ad0 a2=3c94cb8 a3=19
items=0 pid=6052 auid=4294967295 uid=0 gid=48 euid=0 suid=0 fsuid=0
egid=48 sgid=48 fsgid=48 comm="httpd" exe="/usr/sbin/httpd"
And this is what I found concerning Dovecot:
type=AVC msg=audit(1119053800.290:1566630): avc: denied { read }
for pid=7472 comm="dovecot" name=stderr dev=tmpfs ino=2345
scontext=root:system_r:dovecot_t tcontext=system_u:object_r:device_t
tclass=lnk_file
type=PATH msg=audit(1119053800.291:1566631): item=0 name="/dev"
inode=534 dev=00:0d mode=040755 ouid=0 ogid=0 rdev=00:00
type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1119053800.291:1566631): arch=40000003
syscall=33 success=no exit=-13 a0=94e8100 a1=2 a2=94e8100 a3=739ca0
items=1 pid=7472 auid=4294967295 uid=0 gid=0 euid=0 suid=0 fsuid=0
egid=0 sgid=0 fsgid=0 comm="dovecot" exe="/usr/sbin/dovecot"
type=AVC msg=audit(1119053800.291:1566631): avc: denied { write }
for pid=7472 comm="dovecot" name=/ dev=tmpfs ino=534
scontext=root:system_r:dovecot_t tcontext=system_u:object_r:device_t
tclass=dir
type=PATH msg=audit(1119053900.137:1641147): item=0
name="/dev/stderr" inode=534 dev=00:0d mode=040755 ouid=0 ogid=0
rdev=00:00
Both of these sets were repeated multiple times throughout the log.
Justin Willmert
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