[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#849748: dbus is translating SE Linux contexts when it's not appropriate
Laurent Bigonville
bigon at debian.org
Mon Sep 11 16:13:25 UTC 2017
On Fri, 30 Dec 2016 23:55:58 +1100 Russell Coker <russell at coker.com.au>
wrote:
Hi Russell,
> Below is part of the SE Linux audit log on one of my test systems. These
> entries have a MCS context of "s0" which is being translated to
"SystemLow"
> in a very similar way to translating a UID to a username. However the
software
> which processes the audit log expects to have a non-translated MCS
context so
> this causes problems.
>
> https://www.spinics.net/lists/selinux/msg21149.html
>
> This URL has the archive of a mailing list discussion about this
topic. It
> seems that changes to systemd or dbus could be used to resolve this.
>
> Fedora 24 doesn't have this problem but has a later version of dbus
and an
> earlier version of systemd (this problem is about the interaction between
> dbus and systemd). If you have a repository with the development versions
> of dbus packaged for test purposes then please let me know.
>
> Sorry this bug report isn't that good, I don't know a lot about dbus.
But I
> can get help from experts to answer any questions you have.
Could you please try again with the version of dbus/systemd currently in
unstable?
I believe that systemd is now calling an other D-Bus method that is not
doing the translation(GetConnectionCredentials())
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