Selinux fun

[Mike A. Harris]

Karl Larsen wrote:
>    On F8 I left selinux set up as protection. Today I was d/l the many 
> files needed to support the VLC viewer. I got a selinux message saying 
> it was not allowing certain files to be installed. That is when I turned 
> off selinux.
> 
> How can anyone be expected to use this software when it screws up 
> everything your trying to do?

Install 'setroubleshoot', that makes it a breeze.  If you find any real 
bugs in the default SElinux policies, be sure to file a bug report in 
bugzilla against "selinux-policy" so that it gets fixed in the next 
update.  The SElinux folk are pretty responsive these days with updates.

-- 
Mike A. Harris

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