Re: cups-lpd

[Matthew Saltzman <mjs ces clemson edu>]

On Mon, 27 Nov 2006, Daniel J Walsh wrote:

> Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> > Am I supposed to have to disable SELinux protection for cups-lpd in order 
> > to use it?
> >
> > After installing and enabling cups-lpd, I can't print using it from a 
> > remote system.  Disabling SELinux protection in system-config-securitylevel 
> > clears the problem.
> >
> > Nov 25 13:57:18 xxxxx kernel: audit(1164481038.379:173): avc:  denied  { 
> > read } for  pid=11640 comm="cups-lpd" name="random" dev=tmpfs ino=2172 
> > scontext=system_u:system_r:cupsd_lpd_t:s0 
> > tcontext=system_u:object_r:random_device_t:s0 tclass=chr_file
> I would recommend that you add local policy to fix this.
>
> audit2allow -M local -i /var/log/audit/audit.log

OK but would you consider it a cups-lpd packaging bug or a policy bug that 
this does not work out of the box?

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		Matthew Saltzman

Clemson University Math Sciences
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