Bug#338404: initramfs-tools: /dev/[tp]ty[a-ep-z][0-9a-f] are created. This wastes time and RAM and does no good.

2005-11-09 Thread Russell Coker
Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.38 Severity: normal Unix98 pseudo-ttys are the standard feature nowadays and BSD ptys are deprecated. Also there is no possibility of using ptys in an initramfs anyway. So these should not be created. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable

Bug#338405: initramfs-tools: Duplicate files and inadequate use of busybox.

2005-11-09 Thread Russell Coker
Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.38 Severity: normal Having cpio break sym-links is undesirable. For the case of shared objects it's probably best to use cp -L to break the links while copying. Currently the initrd is generated with both /bin/busybox and /bin/sh having the same file

Bug#338406: initramfs-tools: Doesn't create /dev/hda* device nodes on LVM system

2005-11-09 Thread Russell Coker
Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.38 Severity: normal The initramfs generated on a LVM IDE system does not create /dev/hda* device nodes, so vgchange doesn't discover any LVM devices and therefore the machine can't boot. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers

Bug#331522: selinux-policy-default: Install fails with: make: *** No rule to make target `appconfig/default_contexts'

2005-10-03 Thread Russell Coker
On Tuesday 04 October 2005 06:30, Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The reason for this is apparently the difference in the directory layout: the subdir strict is missing. I really think we should put the sources for the policy in /etc/selinux/; using the same dir structure

Bug#233777: can_ypbind is ok

2005-10-09 Thread Russell Coker
Every macros/program file should be included all the time. If I was going to maintain the policy package in it's current form for the long-term I would prevent it from deleting the macro files, but hopefully the package will be obsolete soon. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#336138: liblzo1: liblzo.so.1.0.0 is mistakenly listed as requiring an executable stack.

2005-10-27 Thread Russell Coker
Package: liblzo1 Version: 1.08-2 Severity: normal readelf -l /usr/lib/liblzo.so.1.0.0 | grep STACK shows that the shared object is listed as requiring an executable stack. I believe that this is a mistake, probably due to including assembler without specifying the appropriate data to list is as

Bug#336142: python2.3-iconvcodec: The file _iconv_codec.so is marked as requiring an executable stack but doesn't seem to need it.

2005-10-28 Thread Russell Coker
Package: python2.3-iconvcodec Version: 1.1.2-1 Severity: normal Probably as a result of using assembler code without the extra section for labelling this file is marked as needing an executable stack. This means that it does not work correctly on SE Linux and GRSec systems. See

Bug#338862: postgresql-8.1: Should disassociate from controlling tty via setsid() during daemon startup

2005-11-13 Thread Russell Coker
Package: postgresql-8.1 Severity: normal When started from an administrator terminal the postgresql daemon inherits the administrator's terminal as the controlling tty. This means that the daemon if compromised could be used to attack the administrator by injecting terminal input. To prevent

Bug#338862: postgresql-8.1: Should disassociate from controlling tty via setsid() during daemon startup

2005-11-13 Thread Russell Coker
On Monday 14 November 2005 04:19, Martin Pitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for your report. I see that keeping tty descriptors open is a problem. However, how can I check this? I started a cluster from the command line ('pg_ctlcluster 8.1 main start') and used 'lsof' to get the open fds,

Bug#372712: not just daily updates?

2006-12-08 Thread Russell Coker
I suspect that part of the problem is the large number of updates. Have there been any tests on having daily and weekly updates? If I have not updated for 13 days then there is going to be a complete calendar week in that time period, so the download would be one weekly pdiff and 6 daily

Bug#402499: initramfs-tools: depmod wastes space and time, please replace it with a modules.dep file

2006-12-11 Thread Russell Coker
On Monday 11 December 2006 20:57, maximilian attems [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The major issue is that the depmod program is simply larger than a full modules.dep file when compressed. Given that most sane configurations will not have the complete set of kernel modules (I use modules=list

Bug#387710: planet: Should do multiple downloads concurrently

2006-09-16 Thread Russell Coker
Package: planet Version: 2.0-3 Severity: normal In a typical planet configuration many blogs will be aggregated, some of which will be on slow links. The current code appears to download each XML file in turn, which results in a very slow process. Planet should download multiple blog XML files

Bug#387713: planet: Bad crontab file if interval 60

2006-09-16 Thread Russell Coker
Package: planet Version: 2.0-3 Severity: normal If the interval is 60 then the first field is '*' which means that the cron job is run every minute for the selected hours. It should be 0 for the first field. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT

Bug#396169: linux-image-2.6.18-1-xen-686: Does not support PC serial ports

2006-10-30 Thread Russell Coker
Package: linux-image-2.6.18-1-xen-686 Severity: important It seems that one serial port is supported for a console, but the other serial port (two ports was a standard feature in PCs until very recently) is not supported in any way. If you want to use a modem, UPS, or other device that connects

Bug#390648: FTBFS: will not create hard link

2006-10-02 Thread Russell Coker
Is this package even useful anymore? I hear rumours that it's being obsoleted... Correct. Please file no more bugs against it as it will either totally disappear or be replaced by a package with almost no code in common with it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Bug#390648: FTBFS: will not create hard link

2006-10-02 Thread Russell Coker
On Monday 02 October 2006 23:06, Steinar H. Gunderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Shouldn't a bug be filed against ftp.debian.org asking for its removal, then? Yes, but let's get the replacement finished first. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

Bug#338405: another patch for busybox support

2006-12-01 Thread Russell Coker
The following will significantly reduce the size of an initramfs when busybox is used while also enabling all busybox commands (handy if you have an option to run a shell from the initramfs for recovery). In spite of what maks thinks, the busybox option is still there, so it should be made to

Bug#401369: policycoreutils: audit2allow line 135 should refer to debian package

2006-12-02 Thread Russell Coker
Package: policycoreutils Version: 1.32-1 Severity: normal The audit2allow program recommends installing the checkpolicy rpm package if checkpolicy is not available. This confuses Debian people who then have to determine the correct Debian package to install. It should be changed to mention the

Bug#401673: udev: hotplug not enabled in default install

2006-12-05 Thread Russell Coker
Package: udev Version: 0.103-1 Severity: normal kernel.hotplug=/sbin/udevsend I have to add the above to /etc/sysctl.conf to get Xen to work. I believe that it should be in the default configuration. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Bug#401695: udev: patch to fix SE Linux support

2006-12-05 Thread Russell Coker
Package: udev Version: 0.100-2.2 Severity: normal Tags: patch The below patch has two parts. The first part fixes a minor bug in that get_media() should not be called with devname==NULL. The second is more serious, the current code will label the target of a sym-link rather than the link

Bug#243941: How to help with neglected packages

2006-01-19 Thread Russell Coker
On Friday 20 January 2006 01:17, Amaya [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Marcus Better wrote: I am not a DD. Should I ask someone to do an NMU on these packages? I have not yet carefully looked at your patches, but I would be happy to do so, and upload and so on... But finding a long term Maintainer

Bug#243941: How to help with neglected packages

2006-01-19 Thread Russell Coker
On Friday 20 January 2006 11:44, Amaya [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Russell Coker wrote: I don't have the time that this package needs (as is probably obvious). I welcome a package takeover by someone such as Amaya. Hi there, Russell. While I am not interested in maintanining it, I

Bug#501743: java-gcj-compat-headless: Fails to run the Amazon EC2 API Tools

2008-10-09 Thread Russell Coker
Package: java-gcj-compat-headless Version: 1.0.78-2 Severity: normal Below are the errors that I get when running a simple ec2-describe-images command from the EC2 API Tools. I can supply a Debian package of the EC2 API Tools for private testing, but it's not free so I can't publish it.

Bug#501744: liballegro4.2: The assembler code causes execmod access to be required

2008-10-09 Thread Russell Coker
Package: liballegro4.2 Version: 2:4.2.2-2 Severity: normal http://etbe.coker.com.au/2008/09/11/execmod-and-se-linux-i386-must-die/ The above URL has some background information on the execmod issue. The assembler code in liballegro4.2 causes execmod to be needed because it apparently uses

Bug#501829: kball: editor should be more user-friendly

2008-10-10 Thread Russell Coker
Package: kball Version: 0.0.20041216-5 Severity: normal When you are in the editor, if you press L to load a file it will immediately infom you that it will replace the current level and ask for confirmation. This is annoying when you have just entred the editor or have just saved the level. It

Bug#501844: kball: should accept both ENTER keys

2008-10-10 Thread Russell Coker
Package: kball Version: 0.0.20041216-5 Severity: normal The ENTER key on the numeric keypad doesn't work with this game. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#502372: kgoldrunner: Should support sharing games

2008-10-15 Thread Russell Coker
Package: kgoldrunner Version: 4:3.5.10-1 Severity: normal Kgoldrunner stores it's levels under ~/.kde/share/apps/kgoldrunner. The process of copying files from there to export is not obvious to non-technical users (the vast majority of people who want to play the game). It should be possible to

Bug#502659: iputils-ping: should display the time since last response when there is no response

2008-10-18 Thread Russell Coker
Package: iputils-ping Version: 3:20071127-1 A common use of ping is to ping a host while there is a network outage so that it will be noticed when the problem is resolved. When doing that it would be good if it could display something like the following: 1 minute since the last response 2

Bug#499719: mls policy is known to be broken

2008-10-20 Thread Russell Coker
It seems unlikely that I will get MLS even remotely usable before Lenny. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#476222: already fixed

2008-10-20 Thread Russell Coker
close 476222 thanks selinux-policy-refpolicy-targeted is obsolete and selinux-policy-default has the Amavis/Clamav policy working in a different way (it all runs as clamd_t). So this one is already fixed. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Bug#501647: more info needed

2008-10-20 Thread Russell Coker
What does ls -lZ /usr/sbin/gdm report? I expect that it has the wrong type. Try running: selinux-policy-update ; restorecon -R -v /usr/sbin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#502270: can't reproduce

2008-10-20 Thread Russell Coker
Sorry, I can't reproduce this. Please give me the exact configuration directives for the postfix main.cf needed to trigger it and a diff from the version that doesn't. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#498965: Unable to reproduce

2008-10-20 Thread Russell Coker
I can't reproduce this. Do you have the dbus module loaded? Run semodule -l|grep dbus. What AVC messages do you get when you fail to start hal? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#503042: ntpq doesn't display a useful error message if it can't find localhost

2008-10-21 Thread Russell Coker
Package: ntp Version: 1:4.2.4p4+dfsg-7 Severity: normal # ntpq Name or service not known ntpq Above is the result of running ntpq on a system with no entry in /etc/hosts for localhost. It would be good if this could be changed to name localhost not known which makes it more immediately obvious

Bug#503044: xen-utils-common: should make the loopback device default to supporting more nodes

2008-10-21 Thread Russell Coker
Package: xen-utils-common Version: 3.2.0-2 Severity: normal When file: sources are used for Xen block devices the Xen system will use a loopback device for each one. It's quite common for DomUs to be configured with two block devices (one for storage and one for swap) and not uncommon to have a

Bug#503046: xen-utils-3.2-1: inadequate error handling for the case of a failure to use a loopback device

2008-10-21 Thread Russell Coker
Package: xen-utils-3.2-1 Version: 3.2.1-2 Severity: normal When a DomU is defined as using a file: device the loopback driver will be used to make it appear to be a regular block device. The loopback driver will by default only support 8 nodes so this is a limited resource.

Bug#496459: doxygen: SEGV when it runs out of disk space

2008-08-24 Thread Russell Coker
Package: doxygen Version: 1.5.6-2 Severity: normal The below output from doxygen is from building the ffmpeg package on a machine with limited disk space. The doxygen program should give an error message about a lack of disk space not SEGV. Preprocessing

Bug#496967: similar problems on my EeePC

2008-09-01 Thread Russell Coker
When booting kernel 2.6.25-7 on my EeePC 701 about 50% of the time the machine will hang at the setting clock stage. This sounds similar to the problem described here and in #479709. Also when I try to boot kernel 2.6.26-3 the machine will abruptly power-down shortly after I enter the

Bug#500504: randomsound: The restart option doesn't work due to the lack of a pid file.

2008-09-28 Thread Russell Coker
Package: randomsound Version: 0.2-2 Severity: important Randomsound doesn't create a pid file. The restart and force-reload targets in the init.d script look for one and therefore don't work as desired. Every time you run /etc/init.d/randomsound restart an extra copy of the daemon is launched

Bug#500509: alsa-utils: /usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf should be moved to /etc

2008-09-28 Thread Russell Coker
Package: alsa-utils Version: 1.0.16-2 Severity: normal Config files belong under /etc not under /usr. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#500509: [Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#500509: alsa-utils: /usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf should be moved to /etc

2008-09-29 Thread Russell Coker
On Tuesday 30 September 2008 04:15, Elimar Riesebieter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Package: alsa-utils Version: 1.0.16-2 Severity: normal Config files belong under /etc not under /usr. To be honest: Which config files do you mean? /usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Bug#500965: lists.debian.org: Should remove DKIM and DomainKey headers

2008-10-02 Thread Russell Coker
Package: lists.debian.org Severity: normal Gmail sends out all mail signed with DKIM and DomainKeys, the DKIM signatures do not include a length field so any change to the message length (such as appending a list footer) will break the signature. To deal with this problem the default

Bug#500966: lists.debian.org: should sign outbound mail with DKIM

2008-10-02 Thread Russell Coker
Package: lists.debian.org Severity: normal To prevent forgeries of mail from the lists.debian.org server I believe that we should have DKIM installed to sign all outbound mail. It really is not difficult to do in Lenny, and it shouldn't be difficult to back-port the relevant packages to Etch if

Bug#500967: dkim-filter: Should allow configuring DKIM on a per-recipient basis

2008-10-02 Thread Russell Coker
Package: dkim-filter Version: 2.6.0.dfsg-1 Severity: important I tag this bug as important because some people are prevented from using DKIM due to the configuration of some list servers that are important to them (such as lists.debian.org). The DKIM milter should support the use of the length

Bug#500966: lists.debian.org: should sign outbound mail with DKIM

2008-10-03 Thread Russell Coker
On Friday 03 October 2008 18:32, Thomas Viehmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To prevent forgeries of mail from the lists.debian.org server I believe that we should have DKIM installed to sign all outbound mail. It really is not difficult to do in Lenny, and it shouldn't be difficult to

Bug#500965: lists.debian.org: Should remove DKIM and DomainKey headers

2008-10-03 Thread Russell Coker
On Friday 03 October 2008 19:02, Thomas Viehmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Of course, even more preferable would be if people designing standards would not expect users to change the ways they sign messages (l=) based on whether it's going to be sent to a list or not as the only way to

Bug#500966: lists.debian.org: should sign outbound mail with DKIM

2008-10-03 Thread Russell Coker
On Friday 03 October 2008 22:06, Thomas Viehmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah, and the messages don't originate at lists.debian.org, they are merely forwarded. The little I read (in the discussion of the l= length field) seems to indicate that the designers of DKIM agree that forwarders

Bug#501643: openjdk-6: SSL doesn't work, maybe due to a lack of trusted root certificates

2008-10-09 Thread Russell Coker
Package: openjdk-6 Version: 6b11-6 Severity: normal I get the below errors when trying to run the Amazon EC2 API tools (which are non-free - I can give you a package of them for your own test purposes if that will help but I can't publish them). A Java expert has suggested that it might be

Bug#492420: postfix-policyd-spf-perl: should not suggest running daemons as nobody

2008-07-25 Thread Russell Coker
Package: postfix-policyd-spf-perl Version: 2.005-2 Severity: normal Having a daemon or server process run as nobody is a bad idea because if more than one daemon or server does it then one compromised daemon could attack others. Please make the postinst create an account named postfix-policy or

Bug#492421: man page should not suggest running perl /usr/sbin/postfix-policyd-spf-perl

2008-07-25 Thread Russell Coker
Package: postfix-policyd-spf-perl Version: 2.005-2 Severity: normal If the daemon is launched as perl /usr/sbin/postfix-policyd-spf-perl then some versions of Postfix will report errors as occurring in perl rather than in /usr/sbin/postfix-policyd-spf-perl. If you have more than one Postfix

Bug#492422: postfix-policyd-spf-perl: should use example.com and similar domain names in examples

2008-07-25 Thread Russell Coker
Package: postfix-policyd-spf-perl Version: 2.005-2 Severity: normal http://www.rfc.net/rfc2606.txt RFC 2606 describes the use of example.com and similar domains. Instead of using some.domain.tld in the man page it should use official example domains. The example in the man pages uses three

Bug#492422: postfix-policyd-spf-perl: should use example.com and similar domain names in examples

2008-07-25 Thread Russell Coker
On Saturday 26 July 2008 10:26, Scott Kitterman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The example in the man pages uses three domains, they could be replaced with example.com, example.net, and example.org to give a result that will never cause unexpected results if used on the net and which I believe

Bug#492449: postfix-doc: Should use example.com and similar example domain names

2008-07-26 Thread Russell Coker
Package: postfix-doc Version: 2.5.2-2 Severity: normal The file /usr/share/doc/postfix/SMTPD_POLICY_README.gz has example domains bar.tld and another.domain.tld. http://www.rfc.net/rfc2606.txt As recommended in the BCP document RFC2606 the best names for such examples are example.com,

Bug#441356: SPF and Lenny

2008-07-26 Thread Russell Coker
Below are some SPF entries that appear in full in the output of logwatch 7.3.6.cvs20080702-1 (in the unmatched entries section). I'm running postfix-policyd-spf-perl version 2.005-2 (from Lenny). Jul 26 08:04:46 etbe postfix/policy-spf[23512]: : SPF pass: smtp_comment=Please see

Bug#492581: linux-image-2.6.25-2-686: Does not halt an EeePC 701

2008-07-27 Thread Russell Coker
Package: linux-image-2.6.25-2-686 Version: 2.6.25-7 Severity: normal I'm running this kernel on my EeePC 701. When I tell the system to halt it shuts down almost everything (the screen goes off) and then hangs. It leaves one LED on and produces some heat as the only indications that it's not

Bug#430495: same bug as #426224

2008-07-31 Thread Russell Coker
close 430495 merge 426224 430495 thanks Need to merge all bugs for this for everyone's convenience -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#344471: lack of further data

2008-07-31 Thread Russell Coker
close 344471 thanks Due to lack of further data I think that this one should be closed. The source to all parts of this issue has been changed in the mean-time so the old bug report doesn't seem relevant. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Bug#493171: rsyslog: /dev/xconsole is not labelled for SE Linux

2008-07-31 Thread Russell Coker
Package: rsyslog Version: 3.16.2-1 Severity: normal In Lenny /etc/init.d/sysklogd has the following in it's create_xconsole() function: test ! -x /sbin/restorecon || /sbin/restorecon /dev/xconsole That gives the correct labelling of the pipe on SE Linux systems (and causes no inconvenience for

Bug#493181: login: When PAM version 1.0.1-1 is accepted the parameters for pam_selinux.so change

2008-07-31 Thread Russell Coker
Package: login Version: 1:4.1.1-3 Severity: normal # session required pam_selinux.so multiple The above line is currently in /etc/pam.d/selinux. When the newer PAM packages go in we need to get the multiple changed to select_context (or possibly removed entirely). PAM 1.0.1 is currently in

Bug#493183: kgoldrunner: takes excessive CPU time

2008-07-31 Thread Russell Coker
Package: kgoldrunner Version: 4:3.5.9-2 Severity: normal When the number of wraiths is increased the amount of CPU time taken for the game increases dramatically. On a P4-1.5GHz with 15 wraiths about 50% of the machine's CPU time is used. With 20 wraiths about 80% is used, and with 30 100% CPU

Bug#493181: lenny

2008-08-01 Thread Russell Coker
I've just been told that PAM version 1.0.1-1 is going in Lenny. I would appreciate it if you could propose a package fixing this bug as a candidate for Lenny. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#493316: audit2why.so: undefined symbol: Py_InitModule4

2008-08-01 Thread Russell Coker
Package: python-selinux Version: 2.0.65-2 Severity: normal The audit2why program from policycoreutils version 2.0.49-5 fails in the following manner, I don't know why. # audit2why /dev/null Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/bin/audit2allow, line 348, in module app.main() File

Bug#492638: the impact of this bug

2008-08-02 Thread Russell Coker
[ 31.780286] warning: `ntpd' uses 32-bit capabilities (legacy support in use) Changing the build-depends alone with no other changes avoids the above kernel warning message from kernel 2.6.25 (the Lenny kernel). Could you please fix this ASAP and apply to have the fix included in Lenny.

Bug#493524: xdm: SE Linux patch was written for old version

2008-08-02 Thread Russell Coker
to latest SE Linux code by Russell Coker 3rd Aug 2008 diff -ru xdm-1.1.8-prese/configure.ac xdm-1.1.8/configure.ac --- xdm-1.1.8-prese/configure.ac2008-05-22 04:24:55.0 +1000 +++ xdm-1.1.8/configure.ac 2008-08-03 07:37:02.0 +1000 @@ -116,6 +116,23

Bug#339862: what's the alternative?

2008-08-03 Thread Russell Coker
The reason for putting SE Linux in permissive mode is that if the filesystem is corrupted then the wrong labels may be on files and that may prevent recovery operations. The alternative to automatically doing it is for the sys-admin to do so manually if the need arises. I find it difficult to

Bug#493678: libtheora0: Code not built with -fpic or -fPIC

2008-08-03 Thread Russell Coker
Package: libtheora0 Version: 1.0~beta3-1 Severity: important http://etbe.coker.com.au/2007/02/10/execmod/ The above URL has background information on the execmod denial from SE Linux. The following command shows that some parts of the library have not been comiled with -fpic or -fPIC, I believe

Bug#493679: initscripts: need to have SE Linux context set on /lib/init/rw

2008-08-04 Thread Russell Coker
Package: initscripts Version: 2.86.ds1-60 Severity: normal After /lib/init/rw is mounted the root directory needs to have it's context set. This can be done by /etc/init.d/mountkernfs.sh after calling domount(), or can be done in the domount() function in /lib/init/mount-functions.sh. For my

Bug#493679: correction

2008-08-04 Thread Russell Coker
I meant to say root directory of the filesystem in question. While /lib/init/rw is the main issue at the moment, as a general rule it doesn't do any harm to have an extra call to restorecon, so doing it for all tmpfs filesystems is best. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Bug#493678: patch from Fedora

2008-08-04 Thread Russell Coker
The following patch (from Fedora rawhide) fixes this issue. diff -ru libtheora-1.0~beta3.bak/lib/enc/x86_32/dct_decode_mmx.c libtheora-1.0~beta3/lib/enc/x86_32/dct_decode_mmx.c --- libtheora-1.0~beta3.bak/lib/enc/x86_32/dct_decode_mmx.c 2008-08-04 15:30:57.0 +1000 +++

Bug#493705: libswscale0: The library has text relocations

2008-08-04 Thread Russell Coker
Package: libswscale0 Version: 0.svn20080206-8 Severity: normal http://etbe.coker.com.au/2007/02/10/execmod/ The above URL has background information on the execmod denial from SE Linux. The following command shows that some parts of the library have not been comiled with -fpic or -fPIC - in

Bug#493678: patch from Fedora

2008-08-04 Thread Russell Coker
On Monday 04 August 2008 20:52, Ivo Emanuel Gonçalves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We are aware of SELinux problems in the assembly code and we have made some recent changes to address it.  As such your patch may not be needed in fact.  Please confirm this by getting the latest version from SVN

Bug#493705: libswscale0: The library has text relocations

2008-08-04 Thread Russell Coker
On Monday 04 August 2008 20:59, Loïc Minier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Aug 04, 2008, Russell Coker wrote: http://etbe.coker.com.au/2007/02/10/execmod/ The above URL has background information on the execmod denial from SE Linux. If you want to file bugs about binaries not using

Bug#493705: libswscale0: The library has text relocations

2008-08-04 Thread Russell Coker
On Monday 04 August 2008 22:34, Reinhard Tartler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Russell Coker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The following patch fixes this. Are you sure that this is the only occurence of text relocations? TBH, I doubt that. I built the package with the patch in question and the text

Bug#493705: libswscale0: The library has text relocations

2008-08-04 Thread Russell Coker
On Monday 04 August 2008 22:59, Loïc Minier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The references you provide seem to indicate that the exception is for the case where faster assembly is not available. IE you have a choice between fast assembly and a slower compiled language. While if the difference

Bug#474956: please send a new patch

2008-08-04 Thread Russell Coker
Please send a unified diff format patch or a copy of the entire .c file that you now believe to be the best version. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Blog http://www.coker.com.au/sponsorship.html Sponsoring Free Software development -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#491905: Please split the /etc/init.d/udev file as done in Fedora

2008-08-05 Thread Russell Coker
On Tuesday 05 August 2008 08:18, Marco d'Itri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My proposal is to factor out the function which calls mknod, but keep the parts which mount /dev etc as is. That proposal satisfies most of my requirements and will be quite adequate for Lenny. Please make such a change at

Bug#493831: need more information

2008-08-05 Thread Russell Coker
Please send me the output of the following commands on the system in question: dpkg -S /usr/share/selinux/default/dpkg.pp dpkg -l selinux-policy-default Are you trying to upgrade from a previous version? If so what version? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Bug#491905: Please split the /etc/init.d/udev file as done in Fedora

2008-08-06 Thread Russell Coker
On Wednesday 06 August 2008 22:03, Marco d'Itri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am moving make_extra_nodes() to /lib/udev/create_extra_nodes. Can /sbin/restorecon /dev/$name be called by this script (which will be used by *both* the init script and postinst) or does it need to be run by the init

Bug#445595: Let's fix this for Lenny

2008-08-10 Thread Russell Coker
This is a two line patch that makes no actual code changes (it just changes the labelling of the shared object header). The result of this change is the same as running execstack -c on the shared object. This patch improves system security. Without it any program that links to that shared

Bug#494631: libopenspc: Need description of why the lintian override is needed

2008-08-10 Thread Russell Coker
Package: libopenspc Version: 0.3.99a-2 Severity: normal Assembler code does not inherently require an executable stack. The majority of assembler code doesn't require it at all, the build system defaults to marking shared objects containing assembler as needing an executable stack for

Bug#490545: gnupg-agent: should not permit ptrace

2008-08-10 Thread Russell Coker
On Monday 11 August 2008 14:08, Eric Dorland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is possible to ptrace (strace or gdb) the gpg-agent program. This means that if an attacker compromises any process running on behalf of a user (an MUA or a web browser) then they can ptrace gpg-agent and wait for the

Bug#493524: xdm: SE Linux patch was written for old version

2008-08-11 Thread Russell Coker
On Monday 11 August 2008 21:26, Julien Cristau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looks like seuser and level are never freed. Am I missing something? Looking at selinux/selinux.h, we read: /* Get the SELinux username and level to use for a given Linux username.? These values may then be passed

Bug#493181: login: When PAM version 1.0.1-1 is accepted the parameters for pam_selinux.so change

2008-08-15 Thread Russell Coker
On Saturday 16 August 2008 02:11, Nicolas François [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Aug 01, 2008 at 12:57:13PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # session required pam_selinux.so multiple The above line is currently in /etc/pam.d/selinux. When the newer PAM packages go in we need to get the

Bug#435662: Russell Coker: SE Linux Policy Packaging for a Distribution

2008-08-19 Thread Russell Coker
On Wednesday 20 August 2008 05:48, Luca Capello [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I suspect that most Debian systems have all the video driver packages installed (along with drivers for wacom tablets and other hardware devices that might be used) as that appears to be the default. A bug in

Bug#493524: Can this be fixed for Lenny?

2008-08-19 Thread Russell Coker
What is the status of this? Is it going to be fixed in time for Lenny? Thanks for your work in fixing the patch. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#495786: what modules are installed?

2008-09-14 Thread Russell Coker
Please run semodule -l after the installation and give me a list of the modules. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#499218: selinux-policy-default: Postfix (and probably all MTAs other than Sendmail) can't write to /var/spool/mail

2008-09-16 Thread Russell Coker
Package: selinux-policy-default Version: 2:0.0.20080702-9 Severity: important type=AVC msg=audit(1221605756.703:318785): avc: denied { append } for pid=9244 comm=local name=root dev=hda ino=65548 scontext=unconfined_u:system_r:postfix_local_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023

Bug#499266: dhcp3-server: selinux problem - need to run restorecon from the postinst

2008-09-17 Thread Russell Coker
Package: dhcp3-server Version: 3.1.1-3 Severity: important if [ ! -e /var/lib/dhcp3/dhcpd.leases ]; then After the if section in the postinst which starts with the above line you need to have a line of shell code like the following: [ -x /sbin/restorecon ] /sbin/restorecon

Bug#499267: debian-installer: Please add a prompt for an extra APT repository early in the install

2008-09-17 Thread Russell Coker
Package: debian-installer Severity: normal I would like to add my own apt repositories early in the installation. So when my repositories have newer versions of packages they will be installed directly and I don't have to upgrade later. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Bug#499285: debian-installer: A reinstall of a machine that used LVM over software RAID had partitioning problems

2008-09-17 Thread Russell Coker
Package: debian-installer Version: daily build 16th Sep Severity: normal I have a machine that had been used in a Linux Software RAID-1 configuration with LVM running on top of the RAID. The Debian Installer recognised the LVM devices which in most cases is a good thing. But having LVM enabled

Bug#499363: dkim-filter: Should default to having a directory such as /etc/dkim for configuration files

2008-09-18 Thread Russell Coker
Package: dkim-filter Version: 2.6.0.dfsg-1 Severity: normal Given the fact that the configuration files are relevant to the overall security of the system, I think it would be best to have a separate directory for all configuration files to reduce the risk of sensitive data leaking. Also if

Bug#499364: dkim-filter: Should allow specifying the owner and group of the socket file

2008-09-18 Thread Russell Coker
Package: dkim-filter Version: 2.6.0.dfsg-1 Severity: normal I have edited /etc/init.d/dkim-filter on my system to have the following immediately after the start-stop-daemon --start line: if [ $s != ]; then chgrp postfix $s fi This allows postfix to connect to the Unix domain socket.

Bug#499461: sysstat: needlessly fills logs

2008-09-18 Thread Russell Coker
Package: sysstat Version: 8.1.2-2 Severity: normal [ -x /usr/lib/sysstat/sa1 ] { [ -r $DEFAULT ] . $DEFAULT ; [ $ENABLED = true ] exec /usr/lib/sysstat/sa1 $SA1_OPTIONS 1 1 ; } The above is one of the cron entries for sysstat. Please make this something simpler that will consume less space

Bug#498539: still broken

2008-09-19 Thread Russell Coker
With setools (3.3.5.ds-3), apol still fails: # apol Initializing libqpol... done. Initializing libapol... done. Initializing libsefs... done. Initializing libapol_tcl... done. Initializing Tk... The SETools libraries could not be found in one of these subdirectories: y/usr/share/tcltk/tcl8.4

Bug#498539: still broken

2008-09-19 Thread Russell Coker
Actually it does work. It's strange it gives that error when I run without $DISPLAY being set... On Friday 19 September 2008 19:36, Russell Coker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: With setools (3.3.5.ds-3), apol still fails: # apol Initializing libqpol... done. Initializing libapol... done

Bug#373152: randomness only works for small servers

2008-09-19 Thread Russell Coker
If you have a many virtual servers and if the cron jobs can run for any moderate length of time then you have problems which will not be solved so easily. My current hack for one virtual server I run is to have the daily cron jobs run 30 minutes apart (as some DomUs have jobs which run for

Bug#193644: isn't this supposed to be closed?

2008-09-19 Thread Russell Coker
Now that cron is built with SE Linux support by default, shouldn't this one be closed? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#499518: cron: Patch to support SE Linux functionality in Lenny, the current code is not functional

2008-09-19 Thread Russell Coker
Package: cron Version: 3.0pl1-104 Severity: important The following patch is needed to support the SE Linux code in Lenny. Without this cron jobs will run in the wrong context in most situations. As the changes are all in the SE Linux specific code path (which is not called on systems with SE

Bug#472938: patch to fix this

2008-09-19 Thread Russell Coker
Here is a patch to fix this bug. I've also included a patch to quiet a spurious warning about FILE *mail. I think it would be good if this could be included for Lenny. diff -ru /tmp/cron-3.0pl1/do_command.c /home/rjc/cron-3.0pl1/do_command.c --- /tmp/cron-3.0pl1/do_command.c 2008-09-19

Bug#499518: cron: Patch to support SE Linux functionality in Lenny, the current code is not functional

2008-09-19 Thread Russell Coker
On Saturday 20 September 2008 02:37, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As the changes are all in the SE Linux specific code path (which is not called on systems with SE Linux disabled) I expect that the release team will be happy to exclude this from the freeze. I

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