Fedora 10 Selinux Denies Firefox Ability to Upload Picture

[Serge E. Hallyn]

Quoting Ole Ersoy (ole.ersoy at gmail.com):
>> Are you running with nsplugin_t?  ps -eZ | grep nsplugin
>
> [root at ole Download]# ps -eZ | grep nsplugin
> [root at ole Download]# 
>
>>
>> What file system are you using?
>
> ext3
>
>>
>> What is the exact behaviour that is being blocked?
>
> I tried uploading a photo to facebook, and kept getting a "one
> sentence" postback from facebook saying the image could not be

Interesting.

Another thing to consider is that facebook (or someone else)
might have been trying to do something other than get that
picture, and selinux rightfully stopped it.

> uploaded.  I tried it 3-4 times, just to make sure it was not a
> temporary thing on their side.  Then I ran setenforce 0, and the image
> uploaded fine.  So I assumed selinux was blocking firefox from reading
> the image.  I've been trying to duplicate the result with SELinux
> enforcing though, after rebooting, and now I can upload images without
> a problem, so I'm wondering whether it was just a coincidence that
> setenforce 0 worked.  If no one else has the problem, then it's
> probably just a coincidence.  I have a better idea on how to isolate
> the message in the log now, so if it happens again, I'll hopefully be
> able to get a better grasp on why.
>
> Thanks,
> - Ole
>
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