From: Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl@lkcl.net>
To: Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au>
Cc: Erich Schubert <erich@debian.org>, SE-Linux <selinux@tycho.nsa.gov>
Subject: Re: mozilla 0.9.3-2 crashing with tunables read and write homedir OFF
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 16:38:50 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040818153850.GG19646@lkcl.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200408182023.02799.russell@coker.com.au>
On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 08:23:02PM +1000, Russell Coker wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Aug 2004 08:10, Erich Schubert <erich@debian.org> wrote:
> > > just in case anyone's curious about using mozilla with no read or write
> > > access to user-home: at present (policy 1.12-3 or 4 and mozilla 0.9.2-3)
> > > it don't work.
> > >
> > > debian bugreport raised.
> >
> > Waste of time. I guess that any mozilla developer will tell you they do
> > need write access to their profile directory.
>
> Turning off read/write access to the main home directory does not stop access
> to the mozilla profile directory.
it would appear that mozilla 0.9.2-3 is using fuser to test whether it
can write to the user's home directory.
the policy having been set to ban that access, fuser either crashes or
returns an answer that causes mozilla to crash.
l.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-08-18 19:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-08-17 19:38 mozilla 0.9.3-2 crashing with tunables read and write homedir OFF Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
2004-08-17 22:10 ` Erich Schubert
2004-08-18 10:23 ` Russell Coker
2004-08-18 15:38 ` Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton [this message]
2004-08-18 11:56 ` Stephen Smalley
2004-08-18 13:21 ` Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
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