Re: AVC when configuring printer.....

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On 3/3/06, Ivan Gyurdiev <ivg2@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > So these are all printconf pipes.
> Printconf runs in unconfined_t, and printconf-backend runs in
> cupsd_config_t (not sure if they should be setup like that, I suspect
> this might have been done to restrict what can acccess the cupsd
> domains). It seems they need to communicate via pipes. Looking at the
> current policy, rules are already in place [ for targeted ] to allow
> reading unconfined pipes from cupsd_config_t, but no rules exist for
> writing data back to unconfined pipes (communication in the other
> direction).
>
> Either printconf should be moved into cupsd_config_t too.... or
> cupsd_config_t should be allowed to write as well as read from
> unconfined pipes.
>
> > Trivial test of just 'applying' the existing config appears not to
> > break anything. So, this could be harmless....
> >
> That usually means we haven't found out what the problem is yet, and
> it's non-fatal (which doesn't necessarily mean harmless).
>
Ivan,

I agree: non-fatal is not the same as harmless.

Thanks for taking the time to analyze this.

tom
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