AWStats Update-now link has permissions issues

[Dominick Grift]

On Tue, 2012-10-30 at 16:14 -0600, Dmitry Makovey wrote:
> On October 30, 2012 20:45:37 Dominick Grift wrote:
> > On Tue, 2012-10-30 at 13:30 -0600, Dmitry Makovey wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > > allow awstats_t httpd_log_t:file write;
> > > 
> > > module into the setup. However given that we're dealing with "Standard 
> > > function" of AWStats it would be nice to wrap it in conditional and throw
> > > in  base policy.
> > > 
> > > Which really raises a question: should base policies (and modules) cover
> > > all aspects of "normal"/"legitimate" functionality of applications
> > > "out-of-the- box" or shall we expect it to cover only a subset? Is it
> > > SELinux's group role to suggest "insecure" practices that will not be
> > > covered by policies and probably should be discouraged irregardless of
> > > SELinux state (on or off)?
> > 
> > In my view ideally it should be transparent but in practice  SELinux is
> > also used to block "functionality" sometimes
> > 
> > A boolean for the above should be fine in my view
> 
> should I drop request in RH bugzilla? 

If you want that feature to be available to the public then sure. It
can't hurt to ask for a feature

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