linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 08/28] SECURITY: Allow kernel services to override LSM settings for task actions [try #2]

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Date:	Wed, 12 Dec 2007 11:20:40 -0800 (PST)
From:	Casey Schaufler <casey@...aufler-ca.com>
To:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>, casey@...aufler-ca.com
Cc:	dhowells@...hat.com, Stephen Smalley <sds@...ho.nsa.gov>,
	Karl MacMillan <kmacmill@...hat.com>, viro@....linux.org.uk,
	hch@...radead.org, Trond.Myklebust@...app.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, selinux@...ho.nsa.gov,
	linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 08/28] SECURITY: Allow kernel services to override LSM settings for task actions [try #2]


--- David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com> wrote:

> Casey Schaufler <casey@...aufler-ca.com> wrote:
> 
> > You may need to have an application, say cachefileselinuxcontext, that will
> > read the current policy and spit out an appropriate value of "<whatever>",
> > but that can be separate and LSM specific without mucking up your basic
> > infrastructure applications.
> 
> What would I do with such a thing?  How would it get run?  Spat out to where?

Put it in /etc/init.d/cachefiles and run it at boot time. Put the
result into /etc/cachefiles.conf. Have cachefilesd read it and pass
it downward.



Casey Schaufler
casey@...aufler-ca.com
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