On 5 Oct, 09:16, Deron Meranda <[email protected]> wrote:
> > For now, the best way to make this work is to change one of the
> > SELinux booleans (do not disable SELinux entirely). As root, do
>
> > # setsebool -P httpd_tmp_exec 1
>
You sir, are a sage. I am on F13. Bloody SELinux! I shall give this a
good
test, but it sounds like you hit the nail there.
> Another more secure option, if all you need is to generate a uuid and you
> don't need to use ctypes for anything else, is to generate an
> RFC 4122-compliant random uuid as follows. This allows you to omit
> importing the python uuid module, which in turn imports ctypes.
>
> (This works because SELinux allows reading from /dev/urandom under
> the default policy rules)
>
> def make_random_uuid():
> bytes = open('/dev/urandom','rb').read(16)
> num = long(('%02x'*16) % tuple(map(ord, bytes)), 16)
> # Set the variant to RFC 4122.
> num &= ~(0xc000 << 48L)
> num |= 0x8000 << 48L
> # Set the version number (4 = random uuid).
> num &= ~(0xf000 << 64L)
> num |= 4 << 76L
> # Convert to hex-string format
> hex = '%032x' % num
> return '%s-%s-%s-%s-%s' % (
> hex[:8], hex[8:12], hex[12:16], hex[16:20], hex[20:])
>
> --
> Deron Merandahttp://deron.meranda.us/
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