HPLIP and Fedora9

[James Morris]

On Fri, 7 Aug 2009, Stephen Smalley wrote:

> On Thu, 2009-08-06 at 20:45 +0100, Arthur Dent wrote:
> > Hello all,
> > 
> > I tried today to install the latest hplip package from
> > http://hplipopensource.com to use the printer driver for my HP Printer
> > on my Fedora 9 system (I plan to upgrade to Fedora 11 in the next few
> > weeks). The install package warns you to turn off selinux so I
> > setenforce 0.

Ironically, HPLIP is an example of why you need SELinux enabled:

http://blog.namei.org/2007/12/19/selinux-mitigates-hplip-vulnerability/


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James Morris
<jmorris at namei.org>