Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 08/28] SECURITY: Allow kernel services to override LSM settings for task actions [try #2] | From | Stephen Smalley <> | Date | Wed, 12 Dec 2007 14:35:08 -0500 |
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On Wed, 2007-12-12 at 11:20 -0800, Casey Schaufler wrote: > --- David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> wrote: > > > Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com> wrote: > > > > > You may need to have an application, say cachefileselinuxcontext, that will > > > read the current policy and spit out an appropriate value of "<whatever>", > > > but that can be separate and LSM specific without mucking up your basic > > > infrastructure applications. > > > > What would I do with such a thing? How would it get run? Spat out to where? > > Put it in /etc/init.d/cachefiles and run it at boot time. Put the > result into /etc/cachefiles.conf. Have cachefilesd read it and pass > it downward.
More likely, run it at build time in your .spec file to generate cachefiles.conf, then run it again maybe upon a policy update or if the user selects a different policy.
-- Stephen Smalley National Security Agency
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