selinux + livecd-creator, May 20, 2008
Daniel J Walsh
dwalsh at redhat.com
Tue May 20 19:43:47 UTC 2008
Eric Paris wrote:
> ***passwd:
> running a system with selinux enforcing/permissive (doesn't matter) and
> attempting to run livecd-creator with selinux --disabled results in
> passwd espoloding. passwd called is_selinux_enabled() which says yes
> since /proc/mounts has an selinuxfs and the passwd calls
> selinux_enforcing() which explodes when it can't find
> a /selinux/enforce. First discussion was to change /proc/mounts to hide
> the selinuxfs, sounds like a good plan until I realize /proc/mounts is
> actually link to /proc/self/mounts and that its getting way to complex
> tying to set up FS namespaces or whatever this is going to take. Right
> now I'm thinking of creating a /selinux with enforce=0 in all cases
> inside the chroot, anyone see a problem with that? (I could also work
> on fixing passwd, but i'm trying to be as 'backwards compatible' as
> possible....
>
> ***restorecon:
> do we have an interface to see what is actually in security.xattr?
> Making use of the wonderful new deferred selinux context patch set from
> the kernel I get beautiful message like:
>
> /sbin/restorecon reset /sbin/dump context
> system_u:object_r:unlabeled_t:s0->system_u:object_r:eparis_exec_t:s0
>
> The file wasn't really "unlabeled_t" it just wasn't a valid label on the
> host machine. Since restorecon/fixfiles runs over the same files like 3
> times during a livecd creation this gets rather annoying. Do we have an
> interface I could use to make restorecon do the right comparison here?
>
> ***allow unlabeled_t fs_t:filesystem associate:
> anyone have thoughts on how we want to handle this? I can probably do
> some sort of fscontext= mount magic once i figure out the right fs we
> are talking about and where the script does the mount. But then host
> policy is going to need rules to allow everything that can associate
> with fs_t with fs_allow_unlabeled_t. Is that hard? I assume Dan can
> help me out there. Does this sound like a good way to solve it? Is
> hard coding some 'fscontext=' line into livecd-creator a good idea?
> Should I just generically allow it? Should I make livecd-creator load a
> policy module to start off and unload it at the end? (I don't like
> this idea since I've learned livecd-creator can be pretty fragile and
> leave things half done/half undone...)
>
> ***Invalid prefix *
> On rawhide we just dropped that stuff altogether. Can we do the same on
> F8? Is it actually causing a problem? Dan, any hints on how I can make
> the system lie to you?
Can't you just mount /dev/null on /selinux/context to get this to always
succeed?
>
> Needless to say, I successfully built an F8 livecd with types not known
> tot he host system on rawhide today, booted, and logged in.
>
> tomorrow I spend more time typing to make the policy for livecd-creator
> a bit better.....
>
> -Eric
>
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