gnome login broken.... "null" avcs...

Tom London selinux at gmail.com
Thu Feb 28 21:38:27 UTC 2008


On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 12:21 PM, Eamon Walsh <ewalsh at tycho.nsa.gov> wrote:
> Tom London wrote:
>  > On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 10:06 AM, Daniel J Walsh <dwalsh at redhat.com> wrote:
>  >
>  >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
>  >>  Hash: SHA1
>  >>
>  >>
>  >>
>  >>  Tom London wrote:
>  >>  > On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 7:41 AM, Tom London <selinux at gmail.com> wrote:
>  >>  >> After applying today's selinux-policy* packages, gnome/gdm login
>  >>  >>  fails: gdmgreeter runs, but X quickly dies after enter password and
>  >>  >>  you're back to the greeter.
>  >>  >>
>  >>  >>  Booting up in permissive lets me log in.
>  >>  >>
>  >>  >>  Here are the borkages:
>  >>  >>
>  >>  >>
>  >>  >>  #============= mono_t ==============
>  >>  >>  allow mono_t xdm_xserver_t:x_device read;
>  >>  >>
>  >>  >>  #============= unconfined_execmem_t ==============
>  >>  >>  allow unconfined_execmem_t xdm_xserver_t:x_device read;
>  >>  >>
>  >>  >>  #============= unconfined_t ==============
>  >>  >>  allow unconfined_t mono_t:x_resource write;
>  >>  >>  allow unconfined_t unconfined_execmem_t:x_resource { write read };
>  >>  >>  allow unconfined_t unlabeled_t:x_drawable { destroy getattr };
>  >>  >>  [root at localhost ~]#
>  >>  >>
>
>  The "null" avc's are fixed in the upstream X server.  This is a bad
>  security hook call in the GLX code and affects GLX programs such as compiz.
>
>  The unlabeled AVC is the result of a mislabeled program?
>
>
>
>  --
>  Eamon Walsh <ewalsh at tycho.nsa.gov>
>  National Security Agency
>
>
I've backed up policy to previous version, and checking for unlabeled
programs indicates nothing amiss.

No programs were relabeled on install of poicy; something else I should check?

tom
-- 
Tom London




More information about the fedora-selinux-list mailing list