SELinux enforcing disallows opening floppy drive in Nautilus

[Daniel J Walsh]

Stephen Smalley wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-04-14 at 10:53 -0400, Daniel J Walsh wrote:
>   
>> Please turn on restorecond
>>
>> chkconfig --add restorecond
>> service restorecond start
>>
>> We  are not transitioning to mount_t from unconfined_t because it causes 
>> lots of other problems such as
>>
>> mount > ~/mymounts failing etc.  This is the type of problems 
>> restorecond is designed to fix.
>>     
>
> Hmmm..why not create a user_mount_t domain and transition to it from
> unconfined_t, and let it write to user home directory types?  While
> leaving mount_t alone.  Then you can define a type transition on
> user_mount_t etc_t:file etc_runtime_t.  Relying on restorecond for
> something that can be easily addressed via a type transition seems
> wrong.
>
>   
You can do that but I would suggest you create a unconfined_mount_t and 
allow it everything unconfined_t can do.  Otherwise we end up with 
people mounting files in random places or outputting mount >> 
/var/mounts whatever.    I think very few userspace tools should 
transition, because when they do we end up with lots of bug reports.