SELinux Blocking LDAP Connections

[Daniel J Walsh]

Justin Willmert wrote:

> 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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You can allow httpd to connect via the boolean
setsebool -P httpd_can_network_connect=1

Any idea what dovecot is trying to create in the /dev directory?

Dan

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