On Mon, 27 Nov 2006, Daniel J Walsh wrote:
Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> Am I supposed to have to disable SELinux protection for cups-lpd in order
> to use it?
>
> After installing and enabling cups-lpd, I can't print using it from a
> remote system. Disabling SELinux protection in system-config-securitylevel
> clears the problem.
>
> Nov 25 13:57:18 xxxxx kernel: audit(1164481038.379:173): avc: denied {
> read } for pid=11640 comm="cups-lpd" name="random" dev=tmpfs
ino=2172
> scontext=system_u:system_r:cupsd_lpd_t:s0
> tcontext=system_u:object_r:random_device_t:s0 tclass=chr_file
>
>
I would recommend that you add local policy to fix this.
audit2allow -M local -i /var/log/audit/audit.log
OK but would you consider it a cups-lpd packaging bug or a policy bug that
this does not work out of the box?
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Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs