[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu (linux) vulnerabilty?? Comment please

[Matthew Macdonald-Wallace]

Quoting Chris Jones <chris.jones at canonical.com>:

> Hi
>
> Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote:
>> 2) A link is setup from given directories in each app's jail to
>> /downloads which is read only.
>
> How do I now upload my photos to some website, or any of the other
> myriad things which internet applications want to do that involves
> either reading or writing data locally?
>
> It sounds like a serious mess. Perhaps Fedora's SELinux/PolicyKit stuff
> can do a better job.

Quite probably, I really didn't think it through, it was just a five  
minute distraction from Windows Support really, I'm starting to play  
with SE-Linux, but it looks like it's gonna take a while to master...

M.
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