[RFC] change policy loading to initramfs

[Daniel J Walsh]

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Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Stephen Smalley (sds at tycho.nsa.gov) said: 
>> Hmm...Chad Sellers was working on similar support for Ubuntu, but did it
>> by adding a -i option to the load_policy program to perform an initial
>> policy load so that you can just execute it from a script rather than
>> requiring a direct patch to nash or anything else.  cc'ing him.  The
>> load_policy -i support is upstream and should be in Fedora devel /
>> rawhide too.
> 
> This would still need to be done chroot()ed into the system (there's no
> way to set the base path for filename resoution), correct?
> 
> Bill
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You would still want to read the /etc/selinux/config file to figure out
which policy to load.

chroot PATH load_policy -i

should work.


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