Re: can_network patch.

[Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au>]

On Saturday 11 December 2004 05:01, Daniel J Walsh <dwalsh@redhat.com> wrote:
> Stephen Smalley wrote:
> >On Fri, 2004-12-10 at 12:06, Daniel J Walsh wrote:
> >>When installing a package within firefox, it attemps to exec
> >>system-config-packages which blows up because
> >>*-mozilla-t can not run userhelper apps.
> >
> >Installing a package within firefox?  If you are talking about something
> >firefox downloaded, then why does it use system-config-packages?  And I
> >would expect that you would end up installing any such packages local to
> >the user's home directory at most (and even then only if policy allows
> >writing to it), not on a system-wide basis.
>
> You can trigger it by executing
>  firefox selinux-policy-strict-1.19.12-1.src.rpm

We have mozilla running in it's own domain to limit the risk of exploits of 
mozilla taking over the rest of the system.  Allowing mozilla to install 
packages seems to directly contradict this aim.

Maybe we should just remove the mozilla policy?

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