Is SELinux blocking all forward-only mail agents? (esmtp/ssmtp)

Manuel Wolfshant wolfy at nobugconsulting.ro
Wed Dec 17 02:43:22 UTC 2008


On 12/15/2008 04:22 PM, Daniel J Walsh wrote:
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> NM wrote:
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>> On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 10:18:52 +0000, Paul Howarth wrote:
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>>> Long term, policy for this type of forwarder would need to be written.
>>>
>>> Short term, you could try re-using the sendmail policy:
>>>
>>> e.g.
>>> # chcon -t sendmail_exec_t /path/to/ssmtp
>>>
>>> See if that helps.
>>>       
>> Thanks, will try.
>>
>>     
> I will add labeling for
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> /usr/sbin/ssmtp 		-- gen_context(system_u:object_r:sendmail_exec_t,s0)
> /usr/bin/esmtp    		-- gen_context(system_u:object_r:sendmail_exec_t,s0)
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> To the policy packages.
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Thanks, Dan!
Now, asking as maintainer of these packages in EPEL: any chance of 
propagating this policy changes to RHEL 4/5 ?





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