SELinux vs BackupPC web interface

[John Summerfield]

George Avrunin wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Nov 2007 06:24:06 +0900, John Summerfield
> <debian at herakles.homelinux.org> wrote:
> 
>> I think your phrase "fix properly" meas you need to learn how to write a 
>> local policy to allow it.
> 
> Well, maybe, but this is BackupPC installed from the Fedora
> repositories via yum. So if it's not pilot error on my part, then
> even if I learn how to write the local policy to allow it, everyone
> else who installs BackupPC is likely to have this problem.  


When someone writes a policy, then it can be attached to the bug report 
or reference by it, and the policy can be added to the appropriate 
Fedora repo, either as part of the BackupPC package, or as something it 
requires.


> 
> I've filed a bug on it, following the message from Jonathan
> Underwood:
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=390881
> 
> I filed it as a bug in BackupPC since I didn't know whether changes
> belonged there or in the selinux policy. 

I think that's a good place, the first thing users will see is "it 
doesn't work, it must be broken.

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Cheers
John

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