Cannot play mp3: error message with libmpg123.so (xmms, fc5) -Solved

[Bahram Alinezhad]

--- Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> wrote:

> On Thu, 2006-07-27 at 13:03 -0700, Bahram Alinezhad wrote:
> > Thank you, it worked! But can you explain a bit more? I
> couldn't understand anything from chcon's manual!
> 
> The library is using memory in a way that is not allowed by
> SELinux. A
> detailed technical explanation is available here:
> 
> http://people.redhat.com/drepper/selinux-mem.html
> 
> By marking the .so file as one that uses memory in this way
> (changing
> its SELinux context type), the SELinux memory protection tests
> are
> turned off for that particular object, whilst leaving the
> checks enabled
> for everything else.
> 
> The approach that some other people suggest is to turn off this
> SELinux
> memory protection altogether, using:
> 
> # setsebool -P allow_execmod 1
> 
> This is clearly a much less secure approach and IMHO overkill.
> 
> Paul.


Thank you very much Paul.

Bahram Alinezhad,
Registered linux user #375283 (counter.li.org)
Rudehen, Tehran, Iran.


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