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From: Mike Edenfield <kutulu@kutulu.org>
To: gentoo-hardened@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-hardened] Troubleshooting FIFO pipes with bad security contexts...
Date: Sat, 06 Aug 2011 18:40:09 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5256381.URYclHXeOG@platypus> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110806201239.GA10064@siphos.be>

On Saturday, August 06, 2011 10:12:39 PM Sven Vermeulen wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 06, 2011 at 12:50:46PM -0400, Mike Edenfield wrote:
> > I'm trying to chase down an AVC message coming from procmail. I'm having
> > a problem figuring out how to research, troubleshoot, or fix bad FIFO
> > pipe contexts.
> > 
> > The AVC I get is:
> > 
> > Aug  6 12:15:52 basement kernel: type=1400 audit(1312647352.712:9623):
> > avc: denied  { write } for  pid=9816 comm="procmail" path="pipe:[4235]"
> > dev=pipefs ino=4235 scontext=system_u:system_r:procmail_t
> > tcontext=system_u:system_r:postfix_master_t tclass=fifo_file
> 
> Any idea what procmail is trying to do at this point?

Hm. Not offhand, and for some reason it seems to have stopped trying to do it. 

The only connection I have between procmail and postfix is the usual:

main.cf:mailbox_command = /usr/bin/procmail -a "$EXTENSION"

I use procmail mostly for mailing list filtering but that appears to be working 
fine without any AVCs, so I'm not sure where these came from. I'll poke around 
some more and see if I can figure it out, but at least now I have a better idea 
what the policy is supposed to be doing :)

--Mike



      reply	other threads:[~2011-08-06 22:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-08-06 16:50 [gentoo-hardened] Troubleshooting FIFO pipes with bad security contexts Mike Edenfield
2011-08-06 20:12 ` Sven Vermeulen
2011-08-06 22:40   ` Mike Edenfield [this message]

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