dovecot 2.0

Daniel J Walsh dwalsh at redhat.com
Tue Mar 30 14:09:55 UTC 2010


On 03/30/2010 10:06 AM, Paul Howarth wrote:
> On 30/03/10 14:41, Daniel J Walsh wrote:
>    
>> On 03/30/2010 09:23 AM, Paul Howarth wrote:
>>      
>>> dovecot 2.0 renames some files from 1.x and needs some additional policy:
>>>
>>> File contexts:
>>>
>>> /etc/dovecot(/.*)? gen_context(system_u:object_r:dovecot_etc_t,s0)
>>>
>>> /usr/libexec/dovecot/auth --
>>> gen_context(system_u:object_r:dovecot_auth_exec_t,s0)
>>>
>>> /usr/libexec/dovecot/dovecot-lda --
>>> gen_context(system_u:object_r:dovecot_deliver_exec_t,s0)
>>>
>>> Rules:
>>>
>>> type dovecot_tmp_t;
>>> files_tmp_file(dovecot_tmp_t)
>>> manage_dirs_pattern(dovecot_t, dovecot_tmp_t, dovecot_tmp_t)
>>> manage_files_pattern(dovecot_t, dovecot_tmp_t, dovecot_tmp_t)
>>> files_tmp_filetrans(dovecot_t, dovecot_tmp_t, { file dir })
>>> allow dovecot_t self:capability kill;
>>> allow dovecot_t dovecot_auth_t:process signal;
>>>
>>> With those additions, I've got dovecot 2.0 running in my simple
>>> PAM-based environment, leaving just the following AVC:
>>>
>>> type=AVC msg=audit(1269955050.887:91063): avc: denied { write } for
>>> pid=15315 comm="dovecot" name="dovecot.conf" dev=dm-6 ino=11454
>>> scontext=unconfined_u:system_r:dovecot_t:s0
>>> tcontext=system_u:object_r:dovecot_etc_t:s0 tclass=file
>>> type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1269955050.887:91063): arch=c000003e syscall=42
>>> success=no exit=-13 a0=4 a1=7fffa5620390 a2=6e a3=7fffa5620220 items=0
>>> ppid=15314 pid=15315 auid=0 uid=0 gid=0 euid=0 suid=0 fsuid=0 egid=0
>>> sgid=0 fsgid=0 tty=pts2 ses=2219 comm="dovecot" exe="/usr/sbin/dovecot"
>>> subj=unconfined_u:system_r:dovecot_t:s0 key=(null)
>>>
>>> I haven't figured out where that's coming from yet but it looks far too
>>> suspicious to allow, and doesn't seem to break anything when it's not
>>> allowed.
>>>
>>> Paul.
>>>        
>    
>>>        
>> Also is this coming to F12 or just F13?
>>      
> Only Rawhide (F14) at the moment. I doubt that it will appear in F13 as
> it's not there yet (I'm not the maintainer btw) and the configuration
> has changed from /etc/dovecot.conf to /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf +
> /etc/dovecot/conf.d/*.conf and some of the directives have changed too.
>
> Paul.
>
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Ok thanks for the heads up. I will put the changes into F13 policy.


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