[libvirt] None seclabel question

Daniel P. Berrange berrange at redhat.com
Tue Sep 4 09:22:56 UTC 2012


On Mon, Sep 03, 2012 at 12:57:50PM -0300, Marcelo Cerri wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I was discussing with Jiri Denemark about the current behavior of
> none seclabels with multiple security drivers and I'd like to hear
> more opinions about how this should work.
> 
> Currently, a none security label can be defined specifically to each
> enabled security driver. For example, using a default configuration
> (in which SELinux is enabled as default driver and DAC is enabled
> due to privileged mode), a guest definition can contain the
> following seclabel:
> 
>     <seclabel type='none' model='selinux'/>
> 
> This will disable SELinux labeling and will keep labeling enabled
> for any other security drivers (DAC in this case).
> 
> So, my question is: should none seclabels affect specific drivers
> (as done now) or just one none seclabel should be accepted affecting
> all security drivers in use?

No, as with your example above, the type=none is scoped to a specific
driver.

Daniel
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