FC5: Disable SELinux for desktop usage, wait for policy update?

Daniel J Walsh dwalsh at redhat.com
Thu Mar 23 15:57:19 UTC 2006


Jim Cornette wrote:
> Daniel J Walsh wrote:
>> Gérard Milmeister wrote:
>>> Since the current selinux configuration seems to break many things,
>>> among others:
>>> - USB scanner access
>>> - USB harddrive mounting
>>> would this entail, that selinux on FC5 is unsuitable for desktop
>>> usage, and only useful for servers? Is there a chance that
>>> policy updates will come, that correct these things?
>>> SELinux on FC4 was pretty painless, so the ideas for
>>> the new SELinux policies surprise me a bit.
>>>   
>> Yes we will be updating policy today.  SELinux in FC5 is suitable for 
>> desktop.
>>
>> I have created a yum repository for FC5 on
>> ftp://people.redhat.com/dwalsh/SELinux/FC5
>>
>> This has an updated tool chain for SELinux and an updated policy.  
>> These will also be available for FC5 test updates tonight.  If 
>> everything goes ok, they will be updated in a few days.
>>
>> Dan
>>
>>
>
> Thanks! I had a dep error with the attached repo file.
>
> Reading repository metadata in from local files
> Resolving Dependencies
> --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
> ---> Package libselinux-devel.i386 0:1.30-1.fc5 set to be updated
> ---> Package libselinux.i386 0:1.30-1.fc5 set to be updated
> ---> Package libselinux-python.i386 0:1.30-1.fc5 set to be updated
> --> Running transaction check
> --> Processing Dependency: libsetrans >= 0.1.20-1 for package: libselinux
> --> Finished Dependency Resolution
> Error: Missing Dependency: libsetrans >= 0.1.20-1 is needed by package 
> libselinux
Yes, sorry about that it should  be there now.
>
> Jim
>
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> [selinux-walsh]
> name=Fedora Core SELinux $releasever - $basearch
> baseurl=ftp://people.redhat.com/dwalsh/SELinux/FC5/
> #mirrorlist=http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors/fedora-core-$releasever
> enabled=1
> gpgcheck=1
> gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY
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