Re: [orca-list] Fedora, SELinux, and Orca

[Robert Cole <rkcole72984 gmail com>]

Thank you for your reply, Janina. I appreciate your input. I will likely 
leave SELinux on also because of the added security; I am just going to 
get to know it better.

On 08/24/2012 06:32 AM, Janina Sajka wrote:
> I have not seen this, Robert.I am currently writing you from a machine
> where Fedora's selinux implementation is set to "enforcing," and I see
> absolutely no degradation. In fact, I prefer to run with the extra
> security of selinux. I only ever turn it off when I'm having trouble
> getting some newly installed applicatin or module to work correctly, and
> haven't the time to work through selinux' debugging.
>
> Note that the logs in /var/log/messages provide significant information
> about tuning selinux, where needed. They even give you commands to run
> to help speed you on your way.
>
> Janina
>
> Robert Cole writes:
> > Hello, everyone.
> >
> > I am definitely a novice when it comes to SELinux. I have noticed
> > over the past months that when SELinux is active, Orca seems much
> > less responsive. I do not know how to demonstrate this or in which
> > log files I would need to look for answers as to why this is, but it
> > seems like maybe the SELinux policy may be slightly biased against
> > Orca and the different technologies which it uses (e.g. AT-SPI and
> > friends). I disabled SELinux, restarted my system, and Orca is
> > simply magnificent!
> >
> > Now, I may not need SELinux enabled at all, but if I was, say,
> > working for a company which utilized it then it would definitely be
> > an issue. I am sure this is more a SELinux issue than anything. I am
> > going to do some research to find log files and so forth to see what
> > has been going on, but what exactly should I look for? I know that
> > whenever I would start Orca, I would receive a message from SEAlert
> > having to do with ldconfig trying to access something. Whether these
> > two are related or not I have no idea.
> >
> > Any insight on this?
> >
> > Thanks for any help which can be provided.
> >
> > Take care.
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