On Thu, 2005-06-30 at 10:04 -0500, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote: > Matlab, it seems, puts shared libs and binaries in the same > directory. I will freely admit that Matlab is a piece of crap, but I > have no choice but to support it. > > Until recent policy updates the location of the libraries was not an > issue, but under selinux-policy-targeted-1.17.30-3.15 Matlab fails to > start at all because it can't load its libraries. On my system they > live under /usr/lib/matlab-14.2/bin/glnx86, and I suppose due to that > they end up with system_u:object_r:bin_t context. If I do > > chcon system_u:object_r:shlib_t /usr/lib/matlab-14.2/bin/glnx86/*.so > > everything is happy. > > I'm going to see if I can hack Matlab to look for its libraries > elsewhere, but if I can't I wonder if there's any way for me to > include local file context overrides for things like this. In FC4, there is an optional /etc/selinux/targeted/contexts/files/file_contexts.local file that can be created for local overrides. I don't think that support is in FC3, unless they back port the corresponding changes to matchpathcon/setfiles. -- Stephen Smalley National Security Agency -- fedora-selinux-list mailing list fedora-selinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-selinux-list
