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Walsh: Google Chrome Policy

Posted Oct 14, 2009 9:21 UTC (Wed) by renox (subscriber, #23785)
In reply to: Walsh: Google Chrome Policy by zlynx
Parent article: Walsh: Google Chrome Policy

>No, really, SELinux has worked fine on my FC11 desktop system.

Depends on your view of what is 'fine': if I understood correctly, the SELinux policy described prevents Chrome uploading files, which I bet quite a few users will find annoying!

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Posted Oct 14, 2009 9:27 UTC (Wed) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]

Can you explain why the policy would prevent Chrome from upload files? Note that Chromium is not in the Fedora repository yet nor is the policy changes. So this is not applicable to Fedora 11 anyway. In Rawhide, I don't have a problem using Chromium.

Walsh: Google Chrome Policy

Posted Oct 22, 2009 7:10 UTC (Thu) by renox (subscriber, #23785) [Link]

>Can you explain why the policy would prevent Chrome from upload files?

Because it's written in the conclusion of Dan Walsh's blog:
[[ SELinux prevents chrome-sandbox from:
* Using the network
o It can not copy files up to the internet ]]

Maybe I'm misunderstanding it, I'm not a Chrome or SELinux expert..