[CentOS] SELInux conflict with Postfixadmin

Tue Feb 21 17:06:11 UTC 2017
Daniel J Walsh <dwalsh at redhat.com>


On 02/21/2017 11:52 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>
>
> On 02/21/2017 11:46 AM, Zdenek Sedlak wrote:
>> On 2017-02-21 17:30, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>>> postfixadmin setup.php is claiming:
>>>
>>> *Error: Smarty template compile directory templates_c is not writable.*
>>> *Please make it writable.*
>>> *If you are using SELinux or AppArmor, you might need to adjust their
>>> setup to allow write access.*
>>>
>>>
>>> This goes away with 'setenforce 0', so it is an SELinux issue.  I have
>>> tried both:
>>>
>>> restorecon -Rv /usr/share/postfixadmin
>>>
>>> and
>>>
>>> chcon -R -t httpd_sys_content_t /usr/share/postfixadmin
>>>
>>> and they are not the problem.  Googling this message doe snot produce
>>> any SELinux advice.
>>>
>>> Any ideas?
>>>
>>> thanks
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>> Hi,
>>
>> after 'setenforce 0' check the /var/log/audit/audit.log:
>>
>> # grep /var/log/audit/audit.log | audit2why
>
> Don't I need a search string in that grep command?
>
>> to see where  the problem could be.
>
> Anyway the last three entries are:
>
> type=AVC msg=audit(1487695678.704:128): avc:  denied  { write } for
> pid=2055 comm="httpd" name="templates_c" dev="sda3" ino=786958
> scontext=system_u:system_r:httpd_t:s0
> tcontext=unconfined_u:object_r:httpd_sys_content_t:s0 tclass=dir
> permissive=1
>
If you want to allow apache processes to write to the templates_c
directory you need to label it httpd_sys_content_rw_t.
> type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1487695678.704:128): arch=40000028 syscall=33
> per=800000 success=yes exit=0 a0=813c3ed0 a1=2 a2=0 a3=0 items=0
> ppid=2053 pid=2055 auid=4294967295 uid=48 gid=48 euid=48 suid=48
> fsuid=48 egid=48 sgid=48 fsgid=48 tty=(none) ses=4294967295
> comm="httpd" exe="/usr/sbin/httpd" subj=system_u:system_r:httpd_t:s0
> key=(null)
>
> type=PROCTITLE msg=audit(1487695678.704:128):
> proctitle=2F7573722F7362696E2F6874747064002D44464F524547524F554E44
>
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