pyzor and SELinux

[Daniel J Walsh]

Antony Nguyen wrote:
> Hello,
>
> It appears that the pyzor spam filtering process and selinux don't 
> like each other on an up-to-date FC4 system:
>
> type=AVC msg=audit(1142747621.765:115624): avc:  denied  { 
> name_connect } for  pid=23305 comm="pyzor" dest=80 
> scontext=root:system_r:spamd_t tcontext=system_u:object_r:http_port_t 
> tclass=tcp_socket
> type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1142747621.765:115624): arch=c000003e 
> syscall=42 success=no exit=-13 a0=3 a1=2aaaadb00ec0 a2=10 a3=0 items=0 
> pid=23305 auid=500 uid=502 gid=0 euid=502 suid=502 fsuid=502 egid=502 
> sgid=502 fsgid=502 comm="pyzor" exe="/usr/bin/python"
> type=SOCKADDR msg=audit(1142747621.765:115624): 
> saddr=020000504223FAD10000000000000000
>
> Can anyone give me a hint as to how to add an selinux policy for pyzor 
> or enable its ability to resolve names?
>
> Thanks,
> Tony
>
This means that spamd command pyzor is trying to connect to an 
httpd_port.  Is this expected/legitimate behaviour?
I see that a pyzor policy was written in the example policy but was 
never turned on in FC4.   This pyzor policy does not allow connections 
to the httpd_port_t (80) either.