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On 01/21/2011 11:43 AM, Genes MailLists wrote:
On 01/21/2011 11:31 AM, Daniel J Walsh wrote:
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> I think it has something about namespaces.
> If you run
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> sandbox -X -t sandbox_web_t xterm
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> Then launch chromium-browser from within the xterm, it complains about
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> Failed to move to new PID namespace:Operation not permitted.
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> Even in permissive mode.
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> I think this indicates that chromium tried to launch the
> chromium-sandbox from within the SELinux sandbox. and the
> chromium-sandbox wants to use its own namespace and this is not allowed.
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> So I guess this means you can not run chromium within a sandbox -X
> environment.
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> sandbox -X -t sandbox_web_t firefox
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> Should work...
I should have thought to try that ... glad you did :-)
Its really unfortunate it doesn't work tho ... this is such a great
feature .. anyway around this ? Any chance of tagging up with google
chrome developers to find a solution ?
I don't understand because I am ignorant in large part on selinux
details - does chrome want to transition to a new selinux type ? Can we
make that namespace 'equivalent' to sandbox_web_t or some way to make
the transition allowed without really leaving your sandbox? Sorry if its
a dumb question ..
No it is not really an SELinux issue.
sandbox is a lot more then SELinux.
sandbox creates a new namespace and then mounts tmp files on ~/ and
/tmp, which changes the namespace layout.
I think calling namespace from a namespace might be causing the problem.
But I am not sure. We could open a conversation with the chromium
developers to see if they know what is going on.
I think we can try to run seunshare chromium-browser and take SELinux
out of the equation all together.
seunshare is the tool sandbox -X is calling to create the new namespace
and mount the dirs.
Good that firefox works, but chrome is growing really fast ... be
good to find a way to make this fly ...
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