SELinux enforcing disallows opening floppy drive in Nautilus

J. K. Cliburn jcliburn at gmail.com
Thu Apr 13 15:25:03 UTC 2006


On 4/12/06, Stephen Smalley <sds at tycho.nsa.gov> wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-04-12 at 14:43 -0400, Stephen Smalley wrote:
> > > And "some process" can be as simple as umount:
> > >
> > >    # ls -Z /etc/mtab
> > >    -rw-r--r--  root     root     system_u:object_r:etc_runtime_t  /etc/mtab
> > >    # ls -i /etc/mtab
> > >    31987 /etc/mtab
> > >    # umount /opt
> > >    # ls -Z /etc/mtab
> > >    -rw-r--r--  root     root     user_u:object_r:etc_t            /etc/mtab
> > >    # ls -i /etc/mtab
> > >    33358 /etc/mtab
> >
> > Hmm...that's interesting.  umount should run in the same domain as
> > mount, and they should thus have a type transition on etc_t:file to
> > etc_runtime_t.  ls -Z /bin/umount
>
> Looks like there is no transition defined into mount_t from
> unconfined_t?  So umount and mount are just run in unconfined_t?  And
> unconfined_t lacks the type transition?

Sorry to be a pest, but what action do I need to take on my system to
enable correct floppy drive mounting and unmounting?




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