Bug 119506 - Output redirection to $HOME/.xsession-errors is a bad idea under SELinux
Summary: Output redirection to $HOME/.xsession-errors is a bad idea under SELinux
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 119204
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: xinitrc
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Mike A. Harris
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Blocks: FC2Blocker
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Reported: 2004-03-30 23:20 UTC by Aleksey Nogin
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:10 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2006-02-21 19:02:17 UTC
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Description Aleksey Nogin 2004-03-30 23:20:38 UTC 
The way the Xsession script is currently written, it defaults to
redictecting output to $HOME/.xsession-errors (unless the Gnome
session is selected). This file gets created with the default user
permissions and certain programs (ssh-agent, for example) end up not
being able to write to it and becoming very unhappy (ssh-agent starts
eating all the CPU). If the /tmp/xses-... is used, everything is OK.

I see 3 possible solutions:
a) Always use /tmp/xses-...
b) Change the script to have the $HOME/.xsession-errors created with
the tmp file SELinux context
c) Allow all those programs to write to user files (bad idea, obviously).

Bug 119204 addresses the same problem with the Xsession script shipped
in kdebase (and bug 119503 asks for that second script to be dropped
and the xinitrc one to be used instead).
Comment 1 Aleksey Nogin 2004-04-01 12:29:10 UTC 
Now that kdebase no longer has a separate Xsession, this became a dup
of bug  119204.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 119204 ***
Comment 2 Red Hat Bugzilla 2006-02-21 19:02:17 UTC 
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.
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