Bug 438285 - Lots of AVC denials during basic use of system (as root)
Summary: Lots of AVC denials during basic use of system (as root)
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: selinux-policy
Version: rawhide
Hardware: i686
OS: Linux
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Daniel Walsh
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-03-20 05:23 UTC by Frank Thingholm
Modified: 2008-03-20 13:12 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2008-03-20 13:12:50 UTC
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setroubleshoot browser messages dump - appx 25 total (66.79 KB, text/plain)
2008-03-20 05:28 UTC, Frank Thingholm
no flags Details

Description Frank Thingholm 2008-03-20 05:23:35 UTC
Description of problem:
AVC denial announcements during simple use of system:
- Browsing in FF3 (related to fonts)
- Changing keyboard layout
- Viewing the ABOUT menu item in SETROUBLESHOOT browser

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Installed from rawhide after the 19MAR2008 replication.

How reproducible:
The last 4 daily rawhide installs (from scratch, over-the-net installs) had this.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Do install from scratch, select DANISH language and "dk" keyboard layout.
2. Restart system and log in as root
3. Use the system as directed above
  
Actual results:
Lots of AVC denial balloons, really large number of entries in setroubleshoot
browser. 25 entries, with appx. half of them having >100 occurrences.

Expected results:
Very few or none AVC denials with the abovementioned usage and login.

Additional info:
Will attach dump of message from setroubleshoot browser. Seems to be lots of
mislabeled files.

Comment 1 Frank Thingholm 2008-03-20 05:28:59 UTC
Created attachment 298634 [details]
setroubleshoot browser messages dump - appx 25 total

Messages dumped from setroubleshoot browser. About 25 in total, with half of
them having >100 occurrences.

Not all are related to npviewer.bin although the first few are :)

Comment 2 Daniel Walsh 2008-03-20 13:12:50 UTC
If you are logging into a machine as root via XWindows, then you should just
turn off SELinux it is not supported and not a good idea.  To make it work would
invalidate all the controls, by allowing confined applications to write to the
/root directory.

Logging in via X Windows as root is a very bad idea.


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