On Sat, 2009-08-01 at 12:02 +0100, Mark Ellis wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-07-31 at 22:22 +0200, David Eriksson wrote:
> > On Fri, 2009-07-31 at 12:38 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
> > > I noticed while testing synce on Fedora Rawhide recently that synce-hal
> > > was causing a lot of SELinux denials related to its creation of randomly
> > > named sockets in /tmp. I reported a Red Hat bug on this:
> > > 
> > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=514768
> > > 
> > > Daniel Walsh, one of our SELinux gurus, suggested it would be better for
> > > synce-hal to place its sockets in /var/run rather than /tmp - see
> > > comment #6 - so I said I'd pass the suggestion along to the list. Does
> > > this sound like something we should do?
> > 
> 
> Sounds like a fine plan. Changed in svn. I've attached a patch which
> will fix a released source if you would like to prod the fedora packager
> to apply it or just attach it to the bug. Might want to test it first :)
> 
> To satisfy curiosity, we put the socket there because it's always been
> put there :) since some of synce-hal comes from odccm.

OK - we stuck this into the Fedora synce-hal package, and it seems to
work fine AFAICT, nothing blew up. :) Thanks for the fix.

-- 
Adam Williamson
Fedora QA Community Monkey
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