Matlab and /var/tmp

[chris albert]

Russell Coker wrote:

> I wonder what happens if a regular user creates the matlab directory
> under /var/tmp as mode 777...
>
>  
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I can su to root, stop the license manager, create the /var/tmp/.flexlm
directory as an ordinary user at 777 and then restart the license
manager without any selinux errors.
It seems that it was just this unlabeled directory after the selinux
initialization in /var/tmp/ that was generating avc errors, both for the
matlab operations which created and read files in this directory, as
well as for tmpwatch.

Chris