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The instructions to make Rustdesk work with SELinux don't work on Fedora 39

Open LostinSpacetime opened this issue 2 years ago • 4 comments

Bug Description

The solutions offered here: https://rustdesk.com/docs/en/client/linux/selinux/ are not working.

Tested on Fedora 39 with Wayland.

How to Reproduce

  • Install Rustdesk nightly.
  • Follow one of the Instructions to add the necessary SELinux policies
  • restart computer
  • try to remotely connect to computer

Expected Behavior

-connection works and one can controll the remote device

instead:

-connection works, but input devices (mouse and keyboard) don't

Operating system(s) on local side and remote side

Fedora 39

RustDesk Version(s) on local side and remote side

1.2.4 nightly

Screenshots

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Additional Context

I also tested this workaround without success: https://github.com/rustdesk/rustdesk/issues/3565#issuecomment-1704210322

LostinSpacetime avatar Dec 19 '23 08:12 LostinSpacetime

Thank you for reporting this. You just saved me from starting that convoluted process.. didn't look pretty.

rpgdev avatar Oct 28 '24 13:10 rpgdev

Thank you for reporting this. You just saved me from starting that convoluted process.. didn't look pretty.

The easiest way to make it work on Fedora is to disable SELinux.

LostinSpacetime avatar Oct 28 '24 13:10 LostinSpacetime

Thank you for reporting this. You just saved me from starting that convoluted process.. didn't look pretty.

The easiest way to make it work on Fedora is to disable SELinux.

Yeah, no. I'll just keep autostarting the app on login. Not like I log in that often.

rpgdev avatar Oct 28 '24 22:10 rpgdev

Thank you for reporting this. You just saved me from starting that convoluted process.. didn't look pretty.

The easiest way to make it work on Fedora is to disable SELinux.

Disabling SELinux is not recommended, I followed this guide and it worked for me, https://www.axelrafn.org/blog/selinux-rustdesk/

elhananjair avatar Nov 07 '24 05:11 elhananjair