miss-match between needs and setroubleshooter's output recommendations

Daniel J Walsh dwalsh at redhat.com
Mon Jan 7 16:52:13 UTC 2008


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Gene Heskett wrote:
> Greetings;
> 
> I have now been in the center ring of this circus about long enough. selinux 
> is about to get made permissive or disabled.
> 
> I have now issued these commands:
> 
> [root at coyote ~]# semanage fcontext -a -t 
> textrel_shlib_t /root/.mozilla/plugins/vorbisrend.so
> [root at coyote ~]# chcon -t textrel_shlib_t /root/.mozilla/plugins/vorbisrend.so
> [root at coyote ~]# semanage fcontext -a -t 
> textrel_shlib_t /root/.mozilla/plugins/vorbisrend.so
> [root at coyote ~]# chcon -t textrel_shlib_t /root/.mozilla/plugins/vorbisrend.so
> 
> Twice as can be seen, and restarted firefox each time, and each time selinux 
> denies firefox a plugin it needs to pay this site:
> <http://ed-tharp.kicks-ass.org/ridingmower.mpg>
> 
> I now have the third denial showing in the setroubleshooter's screen.
> -----------------
> 
> How can I fix this?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
Please attach the AVC messages from /var/log/audit/audit.log

This looks like you could be  running Firefox as root, which is a bad idea.

ausearch -m avc

Will grab all of the avc messages.


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