latest policy: in.comsat, dbskkd-cdb, ktalkd, ..

Tom London selinux at comcast.net
Tue Aug 24 14:17:48 UTC 2004


Russell,

Understood. Let me dig into it.

tom

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>     * /From/: Russell Coker <russell coker com au>
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>On Tue, 24 Aug 2004 02:04, Stephen Smalley <sds epoch ncsc mil> wrote:
>> On Mon, 2004-08-23 at 11:31, Tom London wrote:
>> > Latest Rawhide policy seems to 'reverse the labeling' of programs
>> > started from xinetd, like in.comsat, ... (strict/enforcing)
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>> inetd.fc entries removed at Russell's request, as the inetd_child_t
>> domain wasn't sufficient anyway to allow those programs to run properly,
>> and labeling them inetd_child_exec_t merely masked the lack of proper
>> security domains for those programs and encouraged bleeding permissions
>> into inetd_child_t.
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>Some of those programs need to have policy written for them.  Some need to be 
>re-written, reconfigured, or replaced.  At least now they won't be forgotten.
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>Tom, if you would like to contribute policy for any of these...
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