Dominick Grift writes:
Most stuff in /var is system stuff and not for
users. So if a user has nothing to do there then no need to give them
access either.
Stuff like /var/spool/mail/<user> is however accessible.
Most things in /var is ACCESSIBLE. The same user that could not link
the file had no problems copying it.
I was under the impression that user_u was not meant to be overly
restricted. It should not be able to do su/sudo and other kinds of
system work. But apart from that I thought it was meant to be able to
do most things regular users on non-SELinux systems can do.
That was the impression I got from
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/selinux-user-guide/f10/en-US/sect-Security-...
among other places. But maybe I have misunderstood things.