On Sunday 23 April 2006 20:07, Craig White wrote: >On Sun, 2006-04-23 at 18:40 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Sunday 23 April 2006 17:17, Matthew Saltzman wrote: >> >On Sun, 23 Apr 2006, Gene Heskett wrote: >> >> On Sunday 23 April 2006 13:36, Lauri wrote: >> >>> # chcon -t texrel_shlib_t >> >>> /usr/local/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/Reader/intellinux/lib/*.so >> >>> >> >>> Lauri >> >> >> >> Thank you very much Lauri, that worked like a champ. But why >> >> does it seem to be such a huge secret other than its ulitmately >> >> being usefull to the blackhats? >> >> >> >> I assume that this command line (the top line above) can be used >> >> against any other known good (we think) but similarly >> >> malfunctioning (the bottom line above) program? >> > >> >Yes, if you are sure that's the malfunction. The binary NVIDIA >> > driver's GLX and VMWare Workstation are the other examples I know >> > of. Are there others? >> >> That question is rhetorical I assume as we won't know till it bites >> us again if there are any others. But it does tend to show just how >> much committment Adobe has in supporting linux. Their test box is >> probably still running rh6.1... > >---- >let's give them credit for providing acrobat reader for Linux. Not all >Linux distributions use SELinux and I think that Fedora is pretty much >out in front for SELinux development. Agreed, and so far it hasn't bothered me till now, which I really do think speaks well for it overall. >The problem is that Fedora can't fix 3rd party software but the 3rd >parties that produce software which butts into SELinux issues must get >feedback so they can fix it. Which is why I submitted a bug report at Adobe per your request. Thanks for the prompt, it hadn't occured to me yet, & might not ever have without a small kick in the gitalong. >Craig -- Cheers, Gene People having trouble with vz bouncing email to me should add the word 'online' between the 'verizon', and the dot which bypasses vz's stupid bounce rules. I do use spamassassin too. :-) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
