cups-lpd

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Wed, 29 Nov 2006, Daniel J Walsh wrote:

> Matthew Saltzman wrote:
>> On Mon, 27 Nov 2006, Daniel J Walsh wrote:
>> 
>>> Matthew Saltzman wrote:
>>>> Am I supposed to have to disable SELinux protection for cups-lpd in order 
>>>> to use it?
>>>> 
>>>> After installing and enabling cups-lpd, I can't print using it from a 
>>>> remote system.  Disabling SELinux protection in 
>>>> system-config-securitylevel clears the problem.
>>>> 
>>>> Nov 25 13:57:18 xxxxx kernel: audit(1164481038.379:173): avc:  denied  { 
>>>> read } for  pid=11640 comm="cups-lpd" name="random" dev=tmpfs ino=2172 
>>>> scontext=system_u:system_r:cupsd_lpd_t:s0 
>>>> tcontext=system_u:object_r:random_device_t:s0 tclass=chr_file
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> I would recommend that you add local policy to fix this.
>>> 
>>> audit2allow -M local -i /var/log/audit/audit.log
>> 
>> OK but would you consider it a cups-lpd packaging bug or a policy bug that 
>> this does not work out of the box?
>> 
> No this is a bug in policy and will be fixed in selinux-policy-2.4.6-1

OK Thanks.

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 		Matthew Saltzman

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