Security contexts for the contexts directory?

[Daniel J Walsh]

Stephen Smalley wrote:

>On Thu, 2004-05-27 at 07:54, Daniel J Walsh wrote:
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>>With the new design of the policy tree, we have moved the "contexts" 
>>files into
>>/etc/selinux/*/contexts/
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>>These files include default_contexts, file_contexts, default_type, 
>>failsafe_contexts ...
>>as well as contexts for individual users like users/root.  Currently the 
>>security contexts for these files is etc_t.   Should we change them so 
>>something else? default_contexts_t?  Should file_contexts be marked 
>>differently then the others?
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>I'd suggest a single type (other than etc_t) for default_contexts,
>default_type, failsafe_context, and the other files installed from
>policy/appconfig.  file_contexts should likely have a different type to
>allow different access, so perhaps it should have its own directory and
>type.  With the old layout and policy, it ends up in policy_config_t,
>but I think we want to distinguish it from the binary policy file as
>well as from the appconfig files.
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Ok how about, default_contexts_t for contexts directory and users 
directory.  Create a new directory called files and put file_contexts in 
there with a context of file_contexts_t.

>>Also since policy is determined by /etc/sysconfig/selinux, should we set 
>>a special security context on it?  If we do should we move it to a 
>>directory where it would be easier to maintain the security context?  
>>Maybe rename it to /etc/selinux/config?
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>I would prefer having a distinct type on it (and moving it to a
>directory with that type so that we can easily preserve the type), as
>the integrity of that file is critical to SELinux, at least in the
>Fedora Core implementation.
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Should that have default_contexts_t also? Or something different?