PackageKit policy: background and plans
Bill Nottingham
notting at redhat.com
Mon Nov 23 17:18:53 UTC 2009
James Morris (jmorris at namei.org) said:
> > > MAC policy can be updated without administrative privilege, breaking our
> > > MAC model in a fundamental way.
> >
> > I'm fairly sure that's wrong as well. Installation of another policy
> > does not override the current one.
>
> What about when the system is rebooted?
>
> One scenario here is where the admin has made local modifications, which
> are then discarded by an upgrade of the policy. It should not be
> possible.
Your complaint appeared to be that someone could switch from
targeted to minimal (or similar) by simply installing the other
package. It *does not work that way*, and it never has.
If you're saying that an upgrade to a later targeted policy might
break the local customizations, doesn't that mean the targeted policy
maintainer made a mistake?
Bill
More information about the fedora-devel-list
mailing list