Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 00/16] Permit filesystem local caching [try #3] | From | Stephen Smalley <> | Date | Tue, 14 Aug 2007 13:42:48 -0400 |
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On Tue, 2007-08-14 at 08:53 -0700, Casey Schaufler wrote: > --- David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> wrote: > > > Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com> wrote: > > > > > With Smack you can leave the label alone, raise CAP_MAC_OVERRIDE, > > > do your business of setting the label correctly, and then drop > > > the capability. No new hooks required. > > > > That sounds like a contradiction. How can you both leave it alone and set > > it? > > Whoops, sorry. You leave the process label alone and explicitly > set the file label using the xattr interfaces.
xattr interfaces don't help with the initial labeling of the file when it is created.
-- Stephen Smalley National Security Agency
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