miss-match between needs and setroubleshooter's output recommendations

[Craig White]

On Mon, 2008-01-07 at 11:52 -0500, Daniel J Walsh wrote:
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> Gene Heskett wrote:
> > Greetings;
> > 
> > I have now been in the center ring of this circus about long enough. selinux 
> > is about to get made permissive or disabled.
> > 
> > I have now issued these commands:
> > 
> > [root at coyote ~]# semanage fcontext -a -t 
> > textrel_shlib_t /root/.mozilla/plugins/vorbisrend.so
> > [root at coyote ~]# chcon -t textrel_shlib_t /root/.mozilla/plugins/vorbisrend.so
> > [root at coyote ~]# semanage fcontext -a -t 
> > textrel_shlib_t /root/.mozilla/plugins/vorbisrend.so
> > [root at coyote ~]# chcon -t textrel_shlib_t /root/.mozilla/plugins/vorbisrend.so
> > 
> > Twice as can be seen, and restarted firefox each time, and each time selinux 
> > denies firefox a plugin it needs to pay this site:
> > <http://ed-tharp.kicks-ass.org/ridingmower.mpg>
> > 
> > I now have the third denial showing in the setroubleshooter's screen.
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> > 
> > How can I fix this?
> > 
> > Thanks.
> > 
> Please attach the AVC messages from /var/log/audit/audit.log
> 
> This looks like you could be  running Firefox as root, which is a bad idea.
> 
> ausearch -m avc
> 
> Will grab all of the avc messages.
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let me assure you that he indeed runs firefox as root. We've been down
that road (bad idea) on fedora-list

Craig