Amanda client AVC

[Stephen Smalley]

On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 18:42 -0400, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> My amanda clients are seeing the following:
> 
>      kernel: audit(1144217150.855:17): avc:  denied  { name_bind } for
>      pid=3707 comm="sendbackup" src=697
>      scontext=system_u:system_r:amanda_t:s0
>      tcontext=system_u:object_r:reserved_port_t:s0 tclass=tcp_socket
> 
> And they don't work.
> 
> How to fix, please?  TIA.

port 697 is listed as uuidgen in /etc/services, so specifically mapping
it to an amanda port type and allowing amanda to bind to it seems wrong.
If this is just a result of probing for any available low port for NIS,
then the allow_ypbind boolean is likely relevant; try enabling it.

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Stephen Smalley
National Security Agency