cups-lpd

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Mon, 27 Nov 2006, Daniel J Walsh wrote:

> Matthew Saltzman wrote:
>> Am I supposed to have to disable SELinux protection for cups-lpd in order 
>> to use it?
>> 
>> After installing and enabling cups-lpd, I can't print using it from a 
>> remote system.  Disabling SELinux protection in system-config-securitylevel 
>> clears the problem.
>> 
>> Nov 25 13:57:18 xxxxx kernel: audit(1164481038.379:173): avc:  denied  { 
>> read } for  pid=11640 comm="cups-lpd" name="random" dev=tmpfs ino=2172 
>> scontext=system_u:system_r:cupsd_lpd_t:s0 
>> tcontext=system_u:object_r:random_device_t:s0 tclass=chr_file
>> 
>> 
> I would recommend that you add local policy to fix this.
>
> audit2allow -M local -i /var/log/audit/audit.log

OK but would you consider it a cups-lpd packaging bug or a policy bug that 
this does not work out of the box?

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 		Matthew Saltzman

Clemson University Math Sciences
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