On Mon, 2006-05-15 at 10:35 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote:
> Gregory P. Ennis wrote:
> > On Sun, 2006-05-14 at 12:52 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote:
> >> On Sat, 2006-05-13 at 20:52 -0500, Gregory P. Ennis wrote:
> >>> On Sat, 2006-05-13 at 21:42 -0400, Paul Michael Reilly wrote:
> >>>> Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> >>>>
> >>>> > On Sat, 2006-05-13 at 14:48, Paul Michael Reilly wrote:
> >>>> >
> >>>> > > LOGFILE=/root/procmail.log
> >>>> > > LOGABSTRACT=yes
> >>>> > > VERBOSE=1
> >>>> > >
> >>>> > > and send mail to "root" then I actually see an abstract appended to
> >>>> > > /root/procmail.log which is consistent with the procmail man page in
> >>>> > > that it says $HOME/.procmailrc will get processed. I leaped,
> >>>> > > incorrectly it would appear, to the conclusion that $HOME referred to
> >>>> > > the mail target. It must be referring to the User running procmail,
> >>>> > > i.e. "root" on a stock Fedora Core system, which makes considerable
> >>>> > > sense. This, I believe, is the crux of my battles.
> >>>> >
> >>>> > $HOME is the expansion of the environment variable HOME, which
> >>>> > is set to the 6th field of the user's /etc/passwd file entry,
> >>>> > i.e. their home directory. This happens in a straightforward
> >>>> > way during logins and is emulated in procmail runs.
> >>>> >
> >>>> > > So that raises the question: how does one configure mail (sendmail or
> >>>> > > otherwise) on a stock Fedora Core system so that ~User/.procmailrc
> >>>> > > will be processed for all User's on the system?
> >>>> >
> >>>> > ~user is expanded in a shell to the same thing as $HOME would be for
> >>>> > that user. Sendmail should, by default, use procmail for everyone
> >>>> > which should then process their .procmailrc but it will not trust
> >>>> > files where the permissions allow write access by others.
> >>>>
> >>>> Excellent. This insight has led to the real culprit: selinux.
> >>>> Disabling selinux leads to FC4 level behavior so it is a safe bet that
> >>>> a more stringent FC5 selinux setting is what is ailing me. Now,
> >>>> ideally, I should be able to google FC5, selinux and mail and get some
> >>>> insight. Not so. Anyone have a reference where I can learn what
> >>>> FC5 now expects from sendmail/procmail to make selinux happy? The
> >>>> entries in /var/log/messages are not exactly real informative:
> >>>>
> >>>> May 13 21:22:04 roamer kernel: audit(1147569724.815:39): avc: denied { search } for pid=26417 comm="procmail" name="log" dev=dm-0 ino=4128796 scontext=system_u:system_r:procmail_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:object_r:var_log_t:s0 tclass=dir
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> -pmr
> >>>>
> >>> I am having the same problem with FC5 and selinux. My system worked
> >>> fine with FC4 but is failing with FC5. I am using procmail to store
> >>> spam in created directory ie /savedrwxr-xr-x root mail root:object_r:root_t .
> >
> >
> >> /home/$USER/Mail/spam. When I turn
> >>> selinux off I can get procmail to work perfectly, but when I turn
> >>> selinux back on it fails to be able to write in this directory. I know
> >>> very little about selinux and would appreciate some references as to
> >>> changes from FC4 to FC5 as well.
> >> The out-of-the-box selinux policy for FC5 was somewhat broken for
> >> procmail, particularly if you wanted to forward mail as an action.
> >>
> >> Paul, what log files are you trying to write, and what the the "adv:
> >> denial" messages you see in /var/log/messages when procmail tries to
> >> write to this log?
> >>
> >> Gregory, is /save/home/$USER the home directory for $USER?
> >> What's the output of:
> >> $ ls -laZ /save/home
> >>
> >> Paul.
> >>
> >>
> > Paul,
> >
> > Thanks for your help. Is there a way to modify the procmail policy in
> > selinux?
> >
> > The above directory is not the home directory of the user. When I
> > originally designed the software I created a directory system outside of
> > the /home, but $USER does represent the name of the user. Here is a
> > partial listing of ls -laZ /save/home
> >
> > drwxr-xr-x root root root:object_r:root_t ..
> > drwxr-xr-x bkgrndch bkgrndch root:object_r:root_t bkgrndchk
> > drwxr-xr-x claire claire root:object_r:root_t claire
> > drwxr-xr-x clamav clamav root:object_r:root_t clamav
> > drwxr-xr-x greg greg root:object_r:root_t greg
> > drwxr-xr-x jesse jesse root:object_r:root_t jesse
> > drwxr-xr-x mail mail root:object_r:root_t lost
> > +found
> > drwxr-xr-x mailwoma mailwoma root:object_r:root_t mailwoman
> > drwxr-xr-x melissa melissa root:object_r:root_t melissa
> >
> > Thanks again for your help!
>
> You can probably fix this with file context changes rather than policy
> changes. Try this:
>
> # chcon -Rh -t user_home_t /save/home/*
> # chcon -h -t user_home_dir_t /save/home/*
>
> Paul.
>
Everyone,
Thanks for all of your help. This is becoming a good exercise to
understand selinux. Paul... I will try your suggestion and let you
know.
Thanks again,
Greg
