SELinux denials with PaperCut in RHEL 8

Solution Unverified - Updated -

Issue

We are seeing SELinux errors in /var/log/messages associated with printing. For example:

Jan 31 11:57:20 hostname setroubleshoot[372424]: SELinux is preventing pc-err-queue-name from name_connect access on the tcp_socket port 9100. For complete SELinux messages run: sealert -l 18a0d784-7885-45f6-8bd2-d60c1945b541

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8
  • Common Unix Printing System (CUPS)
  • PaperCut printing software

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