Re: Link to import-im6.q16 not allowed by security policy ?
On Thu, Jun 08, 2023 at 02:06:12PM +0200, Roger Price wrote:
> I use the import program provided by Debian 11 (bullseye) to grab parts of
> the screen. This worked well but I was having difficulty remembering that
> "import" means "screen-grab". So as root I set up the soft link
>
> ln -s /usr/bin/import /usr/bin/screen-grab
>
> Now, whenever I try to run screen-grab or import or import-im6.q16 I get the
> error message:
>
> import-im6.q16: attempt to perform an operation not allowed by the security
> policy `PS' @ error/constitute.c/IsCoderAuthorized/421.
>
> So I removed the link, but calls to import still produce the error message.
Creating that symlink has nothing to do with this problem... whatever
this problem is.
I tried googling the error message, and I get extremely confusing results,
but as near as I can tell, the fundamental issue seems to be a name
conflict between the iport(1) shell command (/usr/bin/import) and the
Python "import" command for using modules.
Are you trying to run import from inside a python interpreter, or a
python virtual env? If so, that might be part of it. Otherwise, I'm
at a loss.
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