How to get an SELinux policy change
Hans de Goede
j.w.r.degoede at hhs.nl
Wed Nov 5 19:52:48 UTC 2008
Jerry James wrote:
> I'm working on getting GCL to run again. The current Debian patch
> (which is enormous) fixes most problems, but not the long-running
> SELinux problem that GCL has had. I took a hint from a thread on this
> list a couple of months ago. I let make run until it crashed due to a
> denied mprotect() call, did chcon -t java_exec_t on the binaries, and
> restarted the make. It completed successfully. I can patch the
> makefile to do the chcon call in the right place, but I'm worried
> about getting the right security context on installation now. First,
> is using java_exec_t in this way acceptable? Second, if so, how do I
> ask for Fedora's policy to reflect that: bugzilla, request on this
> list, some other list? Thanks,
Just file a bugzilla against selinux-policy. Dan Walsh (the maintainer) is
usually very fast and correct in fixing issues like this one.
Regards,
Hans
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