Putting Apparmor profile usr.lib.dovecot.auth into enforce mode blocks access to /var/spool/private/auth for Dovecot

[Nathaniel Homier]

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Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 16.10
Release: 16.10
Codename: yakkety

Installing Postfix and Dovecot and setting them up as explained at https://help.ubuntu.com/lts/serverguide/postfix.html

Then setting all apparmor profiles including Postfix and Dovecot to enforce mode.

Postfix fails to send a TLS protected email because Dovecot can't connect to /var/spool/postfix/auth/private because when Dovecot's apparmor profile is set to enforce mode, apparmor denies Dovecot access to /var/spool/postfix/auth/private.

Syslog
apparmor="DENIED" operation="connect" profile="/usr/lib/dovecot/auth" name="/run/dovecot/anvil-auth-penalty" pid=8251 comm="auth" requested_mask="wr" denied_mask="wr" fsuid=0 ouid=0

apparmor="DENIED" operation="open" profile="/usr/lib/dovecot/auth" name="/run/dovecot/stats-user" pid=8251 comm="auth" requested_mask="w" denied_mask="w" fsuid=0 ouid=0

apparmor="DENIED" operation="sendmsg" info="Failed name lookup - disconnected path" error=-13 profile="/usr/lib/dovecot/log" name="run/systemd/journal/dev-log" pid=8093 comm="log" requested_mask="w" denied_mask="w" fsuid=0 ouid=0

apparmor="DENIED" operation="sendmsg" info="Failed name lookup - disconnected path" error=-13 profile="/usr/lib/dovecot/log" name="run/systemd/journal/dev-log" pid=8093 comm="log" requested_mask="w" denied_mask="w" fsuid=0 ouid=0

apparmor="DENIED" operation="file_perm" profile="/usr/lib/dovecot/auth" name="/var/spool/postfix/private/auth" pid=8251 comm="auth" requested_mask="w" denied_mask="w" fsuid=129 ouid=130

apparmor="DENIED" operation="file_perm" profile="/usr/lib/dovecot/auth" name="/var/spool/postfix/private/auth" pid=8251 comm="auth" requested_mask="w" denied_mask="w" fsuid=129 ouid=130

Dec 22 10:38:20 frontier postfix/master[1516]: warning: process /usr/lib/postfix/sbin/smtpd pid 8248 exit status 1

[Nathaniel Homier (mechamechanism)]

Launchpad acting weird. Won't select the right package which is apparmor.

[Christian Boltz (cboltz)]

profile="/usr/lib/dovecot/auth" name="/run/dovecot/stats-user" denied_mask="w"

That's already covered by the latest upstream profile.

profile="/usr/lib/dovecot/auth" name="/run/dovecot/anvil-auth-penalty" denied_mask="wr"
profile="/usr/lib/dovecot/auth" name="/var/spool/postfix/private/auth" denied_mask="w"

That translates to:
  /{var/,}run/dovecot/anvil-auth-penalty rw,
  /var/spool/postfix/private/auth w,

info="Failed name lookup - disconnected path" error=-13 profile="/usr/lib/dovecot/log"

You'll need to add flags=(attach_disconnected) to the dovecot/log profile.

Patch sent to upstream mailinglist for review.

[Christian Boltz (cboltz)]

Fixed in upstream AppArmor bzr - trunk r3607, 2.10 branch r3376 and 2.9 branch r3042.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.