nslcd (.9x) and SELinux

[Gunjan Varshney <Gunjan.Varshney [at] VERIFONE.com>]

Hi,

 

I am facing a peculiar problem in my setup (to enable LDAP authentication through ssh). We have SELinux enabled in our instances (linux) in enforcing mode. Nslcd itself comes up fine as a service if log parameter is not put in nslcd.conf but as soon as I put in following I start to get audit (AVC) issues where nslcd is not allowed to open log file.

 

log /var/log/nslcd.log debug

 

the audit log gives following line as a clue on what is happening.

 

type=AVC msg=audit(1475042349.537:38975): avc:  denied  { open } for  pid=14122 comm="nslcd" path="/var/log/nslcd.log" dev="xvdg1" ino=44 scontext=unconfined_u:system_r:nslcd_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:object_r:var_log_t:s0 tclass=file permissive=0

 

I did do a restorecon on the file to system_u:object_r:var_log_t:s0 but that also didn’t work. I tried to look at the context for log @ https://linux.die.net/man/8/nslcd_selinux but it is not defined there.

 

Can you please help in telling me what should be log file context

 

-gunjan

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