Re: [orca-list] talking gdm with orca in fedora

[Robert Cole <rkcole72984 gmail com>]

Hello, Jason.

I installed a fresh Fedora 17 system from a live CD. I was curious after 
reading your e-mail, and so I checked the security level for SELinux. It 
is actually set to "enforcing" on my system, so it sounds like things 
may have changed. I will start doing some bug reporting, as I have seen 
a few things which SELinux has flagged which try to make use of AT-SPI2. 
Fortunately, the SELInux troubleshooter (which seems to be pretty 
accessible to Orca) gives instructions on how to resolve the problems 
which it flags.. I am definitely going to try to learn how to 
effectively use SELInux. I never really knew about it until I came to 
Fedora.

It's past my bedtime, but this California heat is making sleeping 
difficult. It is nearly 80 degrees now at about 1:20a.m. where I am 
living. I guess I had better try to get some sleep. <smile>

Take care, and thanks for the response, Jason.

On 06/16/2012 01:08 AM, Jason White wrote:
> Robert Cole <rkcole72984 gmail com> wrote:
> > thanks for the information in the below e-mail concerning SELinux!
> >
> > I did not know about editing /etc/sysconfig/selinux to disable
> > SELinux.
> I don't know how modern Fedora systems are set up in this respect, but I think
> SELinux is in permissive mode by default, which doesn't enforce the security
> policy.
>
> When it's in permissive mode, you can obtain logs of any security violations,
> decide wehther to allow them, and modify the security policy accordingly so
> that when enforcement mode is enabled you won't run into unwelcome access
> denials.
>
> If a particular package is giving you SELinux errors then I would suggest
> submitting a bug report on the package, because it's a Fedora packaging issue
> and whoever is responsible for the package should be able to fix it.
>
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