AVC messages at boot and kdm login (latest Rawhide)

Paul Nasrat pauln at truemesh.com
Thu Mar 11 16:37:27 UTC 2004


On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 11:17:49AM -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Russell Coker (russell at coker.com.au) said: 

> > How does /dev/input really work?  As I understand it event0 could be a 
> > keyboard or a mouse.  So maybe we want a separate type for this so that when 
> > using gpm it can access it, but when the user is granted direct mouse access 
> > they can't read the keyboard directly.
> > 
> > Does this make sense?
> 
> X will need access to eventX as well.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=117369

I guess that init 5 is ok as that is running under
system_r:xdm_xserver_t so we can set that up as with gpm.

A user starts  user_xserver_t, I'm still finding my feet around policy
is this enough to restrict by type.

Paul




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