[RFC] Livecd-creator and selinux, we can play nice

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Thu May 29 15:01:17 UTC 2008


Daniel J Walsh (dwalsh at redhat.com) said: 
> Well I think we need to do a couple of these to figure out the common
> requirements.
> 
> I envision mock to be quite different then livecd.  I think we need to
> full the mock chroot to think SELinux is disabled and to do no labeling
> in the chroot.  This would allow us to confine the mock process to be
> able to write to the chroot and label the chroot mock_rw_t.  We could
> then use SELinux to prevent mock environments from breaking out of the
> chroot, and stop mock environments from doing evil network things within
> the chroot.
> 
> In livecd we need to be able to put down labels that the host machine
> does not understand.

The problem is that mock can be used to do non-build things. (For example,
creating the anaconda install images.)

Bill




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