I feel left out :-).

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Sun Jul 22 09:18:45 UTC 2007


Tim wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-07-22 at 00:13 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
>> Updated my system with new kernel, and nothing horrible
>> has happened. Everything seems to work perfectly :-).
> 
> I'm tempted to say "me too," but I'm not sure.  Things appear fine
> (graphics, sound, network, etc.), though the first time I plugged a USB
> flashdrive I got a SELinux alert, but I wasn't prevented from doing
> anything.  I don't know if it was co-incidental, directly related to
> plugging in the drive, or even important, but the message wasn't
> repeated after dismounting, unplugging, waiting quite some time, and
> replugging the drive in.  Removeable drive options were set to
> auto-mount and auto-browse newly connected devices, at the time.
> 
> This is what I saw in the report, below, perhaps someone can illuminate
> the situation.  I'm curious what the local ID is based on.

This is related to auto mounting and appears to be a policy bug. I would 
recommend reporting this bug against selinux targeted policy. I am not 
sure what the local id is based. It might just be a random UUID to 
uniquely identity this instance among similar policy denials.

Rahul




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