Comments for Open Source Geek

Comment on Dropbox and SELinux by Jim

Jim — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 12:30:56 +0000

Neither of the fixes in the main article or posted by Derek work for me. It is asking for the root password, right? (The prompt only says “your password.”)

Fedora 16 x64, Dropbox 1.2.52.

Comment on FOSDEM 2010 by AB

AB — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 23:00:05 +0000

test posting

Comment on Linux Epic Fail by ROFL!!!

ROFL!!! — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 01:05:12 +0000

They spelled fail wrong in the article. EVEN BIGGER FAIL!

Comment on Dropbox and SELinux by lee

lee — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 20:41:01 +0000

thx Derek!

Comment on About by Ray Mata

Ray Mata — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 14:37:28 +0000

I totally agree with your statement “The longer i have been arround technology the more Ive become drawn to Open Source Software ” I for one have awaken from the matrix ” that is microsoft and Apple.

There is life out there and it is called open source! cisco, soniwall i no longer buy these products, i use an open source firewall. And it has done so well for us i laugh inside when i hear someone has decided to buy a product and not use open source, for it is my secret weapon, for once in my technology life i am the early bird getting the worm.

my current and most prized personal\ business computer is compromised from a dell box, hp monitor, sony Keyboard and mouse with the heart of system being Linux Mint for an o/s oh and just to make me tickle inside i have a mac icon background on my desktop!
what make me feel even better is i just recently purchased a new pc windows 7 and i am so in love with my hacked up linux box , i don’t even bother to log in to that windows 7 system anyways i am starting to rant i will just end by saying ” long live open source” to my competition ” stay asleep in the matrix”.

Comment on SSL Certificate Vulnerability by james White

james White — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 10:04:46 +0000

have you heard about the MIM attack at comodo last month were the certificates from google and hotmail were given out to attackers to use. They closed down all the fake site that were started but CA providers need to be more careful.

Comment on Dropbox and SELinux by Dallas

Dallas — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 03:45:10 +0000

Thanks! I’ve been so bummed after switching to Fedora only for the fact that i couldn’t get Dropbox working. Found this just in time, was this || close to switching back to Ubuntu.

Thanks!

Comment on Dropbox and SELinux by admin

admin — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 20:32:33 +0000

excellent, thanks for the info Derek

Comment on Dropbox and SELinux by Derek

Derek — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 16:38:30 +0000

From here: http://forums.dropbox.com/topic.php?id=26808&replies=22#post-169211

Just change the SELinux flag on the ctypes library that is shipped w/ Dropbox.

cd ~/.dropbox-dist
execstack -c _ctypes.so

ctypes doesn’t *need* to run from the stack, and so this just removes the flag. The result is, not even Dropbox has to execute from the stack.

Comment on Dropbox and SELinux by admin

admin — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 12:16:23 +0000

Hi Huw

Thanks for the comments, its always good to know if people find this site helpful. And it looks like you have cleared up a mystery of why it worked for Fab with no problems and didnt work for you and I. I think its because you and I are using 64bit Fedora 14 and Fab is using 32bit

Thanks, OSG