[Freeipa-devel] [PATCHES] 0633-0634 Move setting SELinux booleans to platform code; Set SELinux booleans when restoring

thierry bordaz tbordaz at redhat.com
Thu Sep 25 09:34:58 UTC 2014


On 09/25/2014 10:58 AM, Petr Viktorin wrote:
> On 09/24/2014 06:02 PM, thierry bordaz wrote:
>> On 08/15/2014 10:40 PM, Petr Viktorin wrote:
>>> A fix for https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/4157
>>>
>>> This depends on my patches 0631-0632 (for backup/restore integration
>>> tests).
>>>
>>>
>>> Our setsebool code was repeated a few times. Instead of adding another
>>> copy, I refactored what we have into a platform task.
>>> I fixed two old setsebool tickets while I was at it:
>>> https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/2519
>>> https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/2934
>>>
>>> Since ipaplatform should not depend on ipalib, and I needed a new
>>> exception type, I added a new module, ipapython.errors. This might not
>>> be the best name, since it could be confused with ipalib.errors.
>>> Opinions welcome.
>>>
>>>
>>> As for the second patch: ideally, rather than what I do with `if
>>> 'ADTRUST' in self.backup_services`, we'd get the list of booleans
>>> directly from the *instance modules, or even tell the individual
>>> services to restore themselves. But, that refactoring looks like too
>>> much to do now.
>
> Filed easyfix: https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/4571
>
>
>> The first patch looks good to me. Just a minor comment. The test and run
>> of 'paths.SELINUXENABLED' is present several times in tasks.py and
>> fedora. Does it worth to refactor it ?
>>
>> About the second patch, something I do not understand.
>> restore_selinux_booleans resets the selinux boolean to the values that
>> are taken from SELINUX_BOOLEAN_SETTINGS in the instance (http/ad) . Does
>> that mean this dict has been updated with the original values (using
>> 'backup_func' in set_selinux_booleans ?).
>
> This is restoring an IPA installation, not restoring the system to a 
> pre-IPA state.
> The settings need to be the same as if IPA was being installed.
>
>
OK thanks for the explanation.
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