[Openstack] Python UUID and SELinux AVC denials

Thierry Carrez thierry at openstack.org
Mon Apr 23 13:50:51 UTC 2012


Doug Hellmann wrote:
> Have you tried changing Dashboard to monkey patch the uuid module to
> blank out the functions being loaded from ctypes? If the
> _uuid_generate_* functions are not set, the existing python
> implementation is used instead and it looks like that just uses
> urandom() inline.

That sounds like a more reasonable interim solution, until that can be
fixed upstream: forking uuid into openstack-common just to quiet SELinux
sounds like a bad trade-off.

-- 
Thierry Carrez (ttx)
Release Manager, OpenStack




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