From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mummy.ncsc.mil (mummy.ncsc.mil [144.51.88.129]) by tycho.ncsc.mil (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i7IJNwrT022568 for ; Wed, 18 Aug 2004 15:23:58 -0400 (EDT) Received: from open.hands.com (jazzhorn.ncsc.mil [144.51.5.9]) by mummy.ncsc.mil (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i7IJNGho011899 for ; Wed, 18 Aug 2004 19:23:17 GMT Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 16:38:50 +0100 From: Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton To: Russell Coker Cc: Erich Schubert , SE-Linux Subject: Re: mozilla 0.9.3-2 crashing with tunables read and write homedir OFF Message-ID: <20040818153850.GG19646@lkcl.net> References: <20040817193823.GU18321@lkcl.net> <1092780620.6531.3.camel@wintermute.xmldesign.de> <200408182023.02799.russell@coker.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <200408182023.02799.russell@coker.com.au> Sender: owner-selinux@tycho.nsa.gov List-Id: selinux@tycho.nsa.gov On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 08:23:02PM +1000, Russell Coker wrote: > On Wed, 18 Aug 2004 08:10, Erich Schubert 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. -- This message was distributed to subscribers of the selinux mailing list. If you no longer wish to subscribe, send mail to majordomo@tycho.nsa.gov with the words "unsubscribe selinux" without quotes as the message.