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

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Message-ID: <21903.1197561827@redhat.com>
Date:	Thu, 13 Dec 2007 16:03:47 +0000
From:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
To:	Stephen Smalley <sds@...ho.nsa.gov>
Cc:	dhowells@...hat.com, casey@...aufler-ca.com,
	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]

Stephen Smalley <sds@...ho.nsa.gov> wrote:

> 
> Yes, we could easily make a simple program that just invokes a
> libselinux function that in turn grabs the proper context from some
> context configuration file under /etc/selinux/$SELINUXTYPE/contexts/ and
> outputs it.  Dan can help with that.

That sounds nicely genericisable, perhaps even for any LSM.

	/usr/bin/lsm-get-context cachefiles

It does have to be able to come up with different contexts for different
caches, but that can be controlled by changing the name supplied to it.

David
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