[redhat-lspp] /home at SystemHigh

Russell Coker rcoker at redhat.com
Thu Feb 23 23:28:58 UTC 2006


On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 15:16 -0500, Linda Knippers wrote:
> /home at SystemHigh also makes useradd not work.  If the admin
> is running at SystemHigh, its possible to create the home directory
> but not update the passwd/shadow files.  If the admin is running
> at SystemLow, then its possible to update the passwd/shadow files
> but not create the home directory.
> 
> Does /home need to be SystemHigh?

I think that SystemLow-SystemHigh is the correct label for /home.

Of course you could have /secrethome labeled at Secret-SystemHigh or
similar things, but given that /etc/passwd is world readable I can't
imagine any real benefit in doing such things.




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