thunderbird+enigmail issue on fedora 21

[François Patte]

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Le 16/07/2015 22:09, Ed Greshko a écrit :
> On 07/17/15 00:40, François Patte wrote:
>> I don't think so: I have disabled selinux
> 
> I am sure you didn't disable it in Fedora.  But it probably is 
> disabled in Debian.

I did! Because selinux sent a lot of error messages and no information
about how to avoid them...

> 
> If that is the case then there will be conflicts with files and
> how they are created and such since Debian will most likely mess
> with the selinux file labels since its filesystem is unable to deal
> with them.
>> 
>>>> 
>>>> I would check to see if the .gnupg is labeled correctly it 
>>>> should look like this....
>>>> 
>>>> [egreshko at meimei ~]$ ls -Zd .gnupg 
>>>> unconfined_u:object_r:gpg_secret_t:s0 .gnupg
>> I  get a ? :
>> 
>> ]$ ls -Zd .gnupg drwx------ fp ufr ? .gnupg
>> 
>> What does that mean? -Z flag is not in the man pages...
> 
> The Z says to list the selinux contexts.  It would seem yours are 
> messed up as I suspected.

So how to recover?

> 
>>>> 
>>>> And the files within the same.
>>>> 
>>>> I would also check /var/log/audit/audit.log for any AVC
>>>> records being generated when T-Bird + enigmail is used.
>> What is reported in this file? And what should I have to search 
>> for?
> 
> grep for the string AVC in that file.

No string AVC:

root at dipankar:~# grep AVC audit/audit.log
root at dipankar:~#

>> 
>> Thanks for your answers.
> 
> As I mentioned in a second message.  Try using "setenforce 0" and 
> then run your tests.  This will put selinux into permissive mode
> and allow things to run if what is happening is as I suspect.

I did. Nothing has changed...

> 
>> 
>>>> 
>>>> As for you other issue with setting up a mail profile....you 
>>>> should still be able to manually configure your old email 
>>>> service.  There is a button for that, I just don't recall 
>>>> when/where it is at the moment.
>> I try to manually configure my mail account but I fall back to
>> the same problem: my university is not in the mozilla
>> databases.... Why do they make such stupid control?
> 
> To make it easier on the "average" user?  :-)

And forbide to use an email address provider who is not in the mozilla
databases?


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François Patte
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