Security policy oversight needed?

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Thu Nov 19 19:56:33 UTC 2009


Colin Walters (walters at verbum.org) said: 
> > Which is why you do it with specifically selected policy packages, and
> > not trying to write out files in %post.  Create a set of policy packages
> > that define certain user cases, and pick from those as you construct a
> > spin.
> 
> This makes sense to me; but there are details to work out.
> 
> * Do we have any guidelines on what the policy should be in upstream
> source?  Corresponding Fedora RPMs?

No, but we probably should.

> * Do we have a fedora-default-policykit-policy?

polkit-desktop-policy?

> * How do we get this installed on upgrades?  Code in preupgrade?

In that case, it gets pulled in as a gnome-session dependency.

Bill




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