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. -- Stephen Smalley National Security Agency
