SELinux and Palm devices (with avc messages)

Daniel J Walsh dwalsh at redhat.com
Thu Apr 22 16:04:25 UTC 2004


Dax Kelson wrote:

>This has been on my ToDo list for awhile, here goes.
>
>I have a Treo 600 (finally, a converged device done right) Palm OS 5.2
>pda, cell phone, OGG/MP3/WMA player, mobile email, and mobile ssh
>client.
>
>When I plug it in, it shows up at /dev/usb/ttyUSB1
>
>Many of the binaries from the pilot-link package want to read and write
>to that character device file. For sure the pilot-xfer utility.
>
>For example,
>
>audit(1082445673.351:0): avc:  denied  { read write } for  pid=3647 exe=/usr/bin/pilot-xfer name=ttyUSB1 dev=hda8 ino=1210304 scontext=user_u:user_r:user_t tcontext=system_u:object_r:tty_device_t tclass=chr_file
>
>Additionally, I need to sync Evolution's calendar and address book with
>my Treo. Evolution uses gnome-pilot and it's gpilotd daemon to
>communicate with Palm devices.
>
>Currently this results in failure with the following avc message:
>
>audit(1082445978.961:0): avc:  denied  { read write } for  pid=3735 exe=/usr/libexec/gpilotd name=ttyUSB1 dev=hda8 ino=1210304 scontext=user_u:user_r:user_t tcontext=system_u:object_r:tty_device_t tclass=chr_file
>
>Dax Kelson
>Guru Labs
>
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>
Bugzilla please.

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