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SELinux Mailing ListRe: Desktop apps interoperability
From: Ivan Gyurdiev <ivg2_at_cornell.edu>
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 07:15:29 -0500
Ah, but that's not true. The user is actively encouraged to store stuff in $HOME, and not elsewhere, because:
Anyway, more to the point: 7) I can't call file_type_auto_trans twice on the same folder.
> If you want applications to share data, there are several ways to ...that's what I already proposed, but I'm saying that:
> voila, mplayer can now play stuff downloaded from the web, without Actually now I remember mplayer actually does have access to mozilla files... but as you say that is a hack, which shouldn't be there. However mplayer doesn't have access to gift files, which is what I was thinking of.
> The point is - I may or may not want mplayer to play random stuff from This email was titled "Desktop apps interoperability". It implies that we're talking about the average desktop, as opposed to a paranoid environment. The average person does not know (or care) for evaluating security requirements and dealing with selinux. He/she wants transparency, but there's still value in using selinux. If you choose to download the content in question, and choose to run mplayer on it, then it seems to me that it should work without messing with security contexts. In the short run a downloads folder sounds like a good idea to me. If added to skel, and set as the default download folder for mozilla, that would be an improvement, I think. -- Ivan Gyurdiev <ivg2@cornell.edu> Cornell University -- This message was distributed to subscribers of the selinux mailing list. If you no longer wish to subscribe, send mail to majordomo@tycho.nsa.gov with the words "unsubscribe selinux" without quotes as the message.Received on Mon 28 Mar 2005 - 07:10:49 EST |
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