postfix, procmail and SELinux - No Go

Marc Schwartz MSchwartz at mn.rr.com
Tue Jun 27 03:06:40 UTC 2006


On Mon, 2006-06-26 at 22:56 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-06-26 at 12:47 -0500, Marc Schwartz (via MN) wrote:
> >

<snip>

> > > Can you check that the dccproc being invoked by spamassassin is the one 
> > > in /usr/local/bin and that its context type is dcc_client_exec_t?
> > 
> > dccproc only exists in two locations:
> > 
> >   /var/dcc/build/dcc/dccproc/dccproc
> > 
> > and 
> > 
> >   /usr/local/bin/dccproc
> > 
> > The former is where dcc does it's build each night.
> > 
> > 
> > It was:
> > 
> >   user_u:object_r:bin_t 
> > 
> > I ran restorecon on it and now:
> > 
> >   system_u:object_r:dcc_client_exec_t
> > 
> > 
> > However, thinking that the build process might change the context, I
> > manually ran updatedcc via sudo from the CLI.  Sure enough, the context
> > is back to:
> > 
> >   user_u:object_r:bin_t
> > 
> > So the change in context will occur every night. :-(
> > 
> > Should I add a restorecon to crontab after updatedcc runs?
> 
> Yes.

Done. This takes place 10 minutes after updatedcc runs, in case there is
some delay in the download.  I moved the pyzor update to 1:15 am and the
razor update stays at 1:20 am.

> > Also, there is some configuration info here:
> > 
> >   http://www.rhyolite.com/anti-spam/dcc/dcc-tree/INSTALL.html
> > 
> > where some settings (ie. UID) might be apropos here. If something makes
> > sense to change, let me know.
> 
> It looks tricky. There's one script that both compiles and then installs
> the updated version. It only needs to be root to do the install, and
> would need changing to split the functionality.

Agreed. Without fundamentally changing the script, this would be
problematic.

Thanks,

Marc





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