posttfix and selinux

[Craig White]

On Sun, 2006-11-12 at 10:16 -0800, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote:
> I'm temporarily running selinux in permissive mode and seeing a few
> security gripes in /var/log/messages.  I assume this means that if I
> were to turn selinux back on fully I'd see some aspect of postfix
> operation start to fail.
> 
>     Nov 12 08:59:32 arbol kernel: audit(1163350772.647:9): avc:  denied  { create } for  pid=3864 comm="smtp" scontext=system_u:system_r:postfix_smtp_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:system_r:postfix_smtp_t:s0 tclass=netlink_route_socket
>     Nov 12 08:59:32 arbol kernel: audit(1163350772.647:10): avc:  denied  { bind } for  pid=3864 comm="smtp" scontext=system_u:system_r:postfix_smtp_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:system_r:postfix_smtp_t:s0 tclass=netlink_route_socket
>     Nov 12 08:59:32 arbol kernel: audit(1163350772.647:11): avc:  denied  { getattr } for  pid=3864 comm="smtp" scontext=system_u:system_r:postfix_smtp_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:system_r:postfix_smtp_t:s0 tclass=netlink_route_socket
>     Nov 12 08:59:32 arbol kernel: audit(1163350772.647:12): avc:  denied  { write } for  pid=3864 comm="smtp" scontext=system_u:system_r:postfix_smtp_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:system_r:postfix_smtp_t:s0 tclass=netlink_route_socket
>     Nov 12 08:59:32 arbol kernel: audit(1163350772.647:13): avc:  denied  { nlmsg_read } for  pid=3864 comm="smtp" scontext=system_u:system_r:postfix_smtp_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:system_r:postfix_smtp_t:s0 tclass=netlink_route_socket
>     Nov 12 08:59:32 arbol kernel: audit(1163350772.647:14): avc:  denied  { read } for  pid=3864 comm="smtp" scontext=system_u:system_r:postfix_smtp_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:system_r:postfix_smtp_t:s0 tclass=netlink_route_socket
> 
> I've run restorecon as such to fix things up, but
> /etc/postfix/prng_exch seems to un-set the correct settings
> periodically.
> 
>      restorecon -r -n /etc/postfix
> 
> Is this operator error, or do I just need to cool my heals a bit till
> someone fixes the internals of postfix to deal with the selinux
> permissions better?
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seems odd that they would have missed that but try...

fixfiles -R postfix restore

and see what happens

Craig