Unable to start kerberos services krb5kdc and kadmind.

Issue

• Not able to start kerberos services - krb5kdc and kadmind through init scripts, if original file is replaced with symbolic link. It fails with below error message -

# /etc/init.d/krb5kdc start
krb5kdc: No such file or directory - while initializing database for realm EXAMPLE.COM

Relevant error message from audit logs -

type=AVC msg=audit(1326955437.799:42868): avc:  denied  { read } for  pid=9543 comm="krb5kdc" name="kdc.conf" dev=dm-1 ino=130626 scontext=unconfined_u:system_r:krb5kdc_t:s0 tcontext=unconfined_u:object_r:var_t:s0 tclass=lnk_file