nsupdate and netlink_socket AVCs

[Daniel J Walsh]

Aleksey Nogin wrote:

> On 11.03.2004 13:18, Daniel J Walsh wrote:
>
>> Is nsupdate a program to be run by an ordinary user? 
>
>
> Yes. But if I understand correctly, it only needs to communicate over 
> UDP or TCP to a DNS server from an unprivileged port. I do not know 
> why it wants netlink_sockets.
>
>> If yes we need to define a security context for nsupdate to allow it 
>> to access the netlink_sockets.
>
>
> Are you sure? _Why_ does nsupdate need it? Is it not an nsupdate 
> deficiency?

Probably.