[ltp] Thinkpad APM Support

Andrew Jesaitis linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Tue, 16 Aug 2005 14:26:55 -0600


honey@gneek.com wrote:

> On Tue, 16 Aug 2005, Andrew Jesaitis wrote:
>
>> SELinux is getting in the way of certain ACPI functions (blanking the 
>> screen and swusp2).  Anyway, I changed the 
>> system-config-securtiylevel file directly, but that didn't seem to 
>> help.  If I disable SELinux globally things work fine, but this 
>> probably isn't the best solution.
>
>
> Very odd - once set in s-c-securitylevel (and acpid restarted) it
> really shouldn't get in the way.  Check the boolean file I mentioned,
> my /etc/selinux/targeted/booleans.local has:
>
> apmd_disable_trans=1
>
> (current SELinux policy treats apm and acpid in the same breath, which
> I've argued a bit it shouldn't - acpid needs to do more).  Then check
> /var/log/audit/audit.log on keypress to look for denied errors.

Okay got it working...  /etc/sysconfig/system-config-securitylevel 
disables the firewall, which appears to have no effect on the acpid.  
But, disabling apmd selinux protection worked.

>
>> One completely unrelated question that is really easy...is there an 
>> "open as root" command in gnome because its a little annoying to have 
>> my email acct under one user and have to log in as root to change 
>> locked files.
>
>
> Unsure what you mean by locked files - you mean
> ownership/permissions?  "su -"...?  I think I'm missing the question
> here :)

No you got it.  Basically is there a GUI (gnome) equivalent of su?

Andrew