SELinux is preventing kdm (xdm_t) "execute" bootloader_exec_t

Garry T. Williams gtwilliams at gmail.com
Sun Aug 2 19:47:47 UTC 2009


I noticed these denials (denying execute of grub by kdm) appearing 
about a month ago (Fedora 11) whenever I select the "Leave" option on 
the desktop right-click menu.  I did a search and found this:

 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=505408 

Daniel Walsh (Mr. Selinux for Red Hat) says it will not be fixed 
because it's considered a security exposure to allow the login screen 
to "modify grub without logging in".

What's up with this?  What is kdm up to here?

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Garry T. Williams --- +1 678 656-4579



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