[refpolicy] [PATCH 1/1] Allow xfce (and most likely other DEs) to properly work with the authorization information

[cpebenito@tresys.com (Christopher J. PeBenito)]

On 2/6/2011 10:14 AM, Sven Vermeulen wrote:
> On my system, I use XFCE and start X from the commandline (using "startx")
> rather than through a graphical DM. During the start-up, XFCE4 creates
> temporary ICE files in /tmp (like /tmp/.xfsm-ICE-ABCDEF) which are later
> read in by iceauth and at some point X.
>
> I'm not that good at the entire ICE stuff, but without this, I was unable to
> shut down my session ("log off").

What specific process was creating the files?  Do you still have the 
logs?  I'm interested in seeing them, as user processes creating ICE 
files seems wrong.

> Signed-off-by: Sven Vermeulen<sven.vermeulen@siphos.be>
> ---
>   policy/modules/services/xserver.te |    3 +++
>   1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/policy/modules/services/xserver.te b/policy/modules/services/xserver.te
> index 33b91be..34ed5a7 100644
> --- a/policy/modules/services/xserver.te
> +++ b/policy/modules/services/xserver.te
> @@ -234,9 +234,11 @@ userdom_user_home_dir_filetrans(iceauth_t, iceauth_home_t, file)
>
>   allow xdm_t iceauth_home_t:file read_file_perms;
>
> +files_search_tmp(iceauth_t)
>   fs_search_auto_mountpoints(iceauth_t)
>
>   userdom_use_user_terminals(iceauth_t)
> +userdom_read_user_tmp_files(iceauth_t)
>
>   tunable_policy(`use_nfs_home_dirs',`
>   	fs_manage_nfs_files(iceauth_t)
> @@ -726,6 +728,7 @@ seutil_read_default_contexts(xserver_t)
>   userdom_search_user_home_dirs(xserver_t)
>   userdom_use_user_ttys(xserver_t)
>   userdom_setattr_user_ttys(xserver_t)
> +userdom_read_user_tmp_files(xserver_t)
>   userdom_rw_user_tmpfs_files(xserver_t)
>
>   xserver_use_user_fonts(xserver_t)


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Chris PeBenito
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