linux-kernel - Re: Upstream first policy

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Message-ID: <20100308212004.GA1314123@hiwaay.net>
Date:	Mon, 8 Mar 2010 15:20:04 -0600
From:	Chris Adams <cmadams@...aay.net>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Upstream first policy

Once upon a time, Alan Cox  <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk> said:
>Its path based in the sense that public_html has a path based meaning by
>convention understood by httpd. Copy a jpeg into your public_html and it
>will be labelled up for http access under the Fedora shipped rule sets.

I'm pretty sure the "copy into a directory" only gets the correct label
by inheritance from the parent directory.

"mkdir public_html" only gets the correct label by running the
restorecond daemon, which is really kind of a hack.  You have a
user-space daemon that watches for creation of specific things with
inotify, and resets their label when a match is found.  It doesn't scale
up to many rules, certainly not the full SELinux list.

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Chris Adams <cmadams@...aay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.
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