posttfix and selinux

[Wolfgang S. Rupprecht]

I'm temporarily running selinux in permissive mode and seeing a few
security gripes in /var/log/messages.  I assume this means that if I
were to turn selinux back on fully I'd see some aspect of postfix
operation start to fail.

    Nov 12 08:59:32 arbol kernel: audit(1163350772.647:9): avc:  denied  { create } for  pid=3864 comm="smtp" scontext=system_u:system_r:postfix_smtp_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:system_r:postfix_smtp_t:s0 tclass=netlink_route_socket
    Nov 12 08:59:32 arbol kernel: audit(1163350772.647:10): avc:  denied  { bind } for  pid=3864 comm="smtp" scontext=system_u:system_r:postfix_smtp_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:system_r:postfix_smtp_t:s0 tclass=netlink_route_socket
    Nov 12 08:59:32 arbol kernel: audit(1163350772.647:11): avc:  denied  { getattr } for  pid=3864 comm="smtp" scontext=system_u:system_r:postfix_smtp_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:system_r:postfix_smtp_t:s0 tclass=netlink_route_socket
    Nov 12 08:59:32 arbol kernel: audit(1163350772.647:12): avc:  denied  { write } for  pid=3864 comm="smtp" scontext=system_u:system_r:postfix_smtp_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:system_r:postfix_smtp_t:s0 tclass=netlink_route_socket
    Nov 12 08:59:32 arbol kernel: audit(1163350772.647:13): avc:  denied  { nlmsg_read } for  pid=3864 comm="smtp" scontext=system_u:system_r:postfix_smtp_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:system_r:postfix_smtp_t:s0 tclass=netlink_route_socket
    Nov 12 08:59:32 arbol kernel: audit(1163350772.647:14): avc:  denied  { read } for  pid=3864 comm="smtp" scontext=system_u:system_r:postfix_smtp_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:system_r:postfix_smtp_t:s0 tclass=netlink_route_socket

I've run restorecon as such to fix things up, but
/etc/postfix/prng_exch seems to un-set the correct settings
periodically.

     restorecon -r -n /etc/postfix

Is this operator error, or do I just need to cool my heals a bit till
someone fixes the internals of postfix to deal with the selinux
permissions better?

-wolfgang
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Wolfgang S. Rupprecht                http://www.wsrcc.com/wolfgang/