SElinux and Brother printer driver problem on F8

Daniel J Walsh dwalsh at redhat.com
Wed Jul 30 15:34:32 UTC 2008


Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Tuesday 29 July 2008 18:12:50 Bernd Bartmann wrote:
>> 2008/7/29 Tim Waugh:
>>> On Tue, 2008-07-29 at 18:42 +0200, Bernd Bartmann wrote:
>>>> Now, whenever I print something I get a SElinux warning:
>>>>
>>>> SELinux is preventing brprintconf_mfc (cupsd_t) "write" to ./inf
>>>> (usr_t).
>>> Looks like you need something along the lines of:
>>>
>>> chcon -t cupsd_etc_t /usr/local/Brother/Printer/*/inf
>>>
>>> (if that works, you might want to mention that to Brother so they can
>>> fix their documentation).
>> Thanks Tim! That did the trick. Altough the files in the inf/
>> directory do not get changed I now get the printouts in A4 format and
>> no SElinux warning anymore.
>>
> Bernd, I second Tim's suggestion that you should contact Brother.  Some time 
> back I fed some info back to them and they did appreciate it.
> 
> Anne
> 
> 
> 
I will change the default labeling.

/usr/local/Brother/inf(/.*)?
gen_context(system_u:object_r:cupsd_rw_etc_t,s0)

Is the current labeling.

Is there a directory before inf?




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