From: Russell Coker <rcoker@redhat.com>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: Stephen Smalley <sds@epoch.ncsc.mil>,
Daniel J Walsh <dwalsh@redhat.com>,
SE Linux list <selinux@tycho.nsa.gov>,
Joshua Brindle <jbrindle@snu.edu>,
Jim Carter <jwcart2@epoch.ncsc.mil>,
Colin Walters <walters@redhat.com>,
Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Single home directory type for all roles.
Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 14:03:35 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1102647815.4509.123.camel@aeon> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200412092040.iB9KelRx032136@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
On Thu, 2004-12-09 at 15:40 -0500, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 05:12:31 +1100, Russell Coker said:
>
> > The solution then would be to have a separate domain for the
> > administrator to run ls which can read all sym-links while other
> > programs the administrator may run (rm, cp, mv, etc) will be denied
> > access to read many types of sym-link. Is this a good idea?
>
> Probably not - then you get into a situation where you try to mv/rm/cp
> something, it fails, and when you run ls, it looks like it should work....
That would only happen when you do "ls -l /tmp/foo/bar" and
"cp /tmp/foo/bar /whatever" and /tmp/foo is a sym-link. It's not the
most common use, but you are correct it would bite people occasionally.
Creating a new permission for sym-links as in Steve's test patch is the
best solution.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-12-10 3:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-12-07 0:08 patch: add can_create() macro, allow file_type_auto_trans(a,b,c, { file dir }) Thomas Bleher
2004-12-08 19:32 ` James Carter
2004-12-09 16:31 ` Some more fixes Daniel J Walsh
2004-12-09 18:35 ` Thomas Bleher
2004-12-10 20:14 ` James Carter
2004-12-09 16:50 ` Single home directory type for all roles Daniel J Walsh
2004-12-09 17:20 ` Stephen Smalley
2004-12-09 17:40 ` Stephen Smalley
2004-12-10 16:23 ` Manipulating user roles without policy-sources installed Daniel J Walsh
2004-12-10 16:37 ` Stephen Smalley
2004-12-10 18:09 ` Daniel J Walsh
2004-12-10 18:38 ` Stephen Smalley
2004-12-09 17:47 ` Single home directory type for all roles Russell Coker
2004-12-09 17:53 ` Stephen Smalley
2004-12-09 18:12 ` Russell Coker
2004-12-09 18:18 ` Stephen Smalley
2004-12-09 18:45 ` Stephen Smalley
2004-12-09 19:08 ` Russell Coker
2004-12-09 20:03 ` Casey Schaufler
2004-12-10 12:20 ` Russell Coker
2004-12-10 15:22 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-12-10 16:19 ` Casey Schaufler
2004-12-10 17:00 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-12-10 17:06 ` Stephen Smalley
2004-12-10 17:29 ` Casey Schaufler
2004-12-09 20:40 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-12-10 3:03 ` Russell Coker [this message]
2004-12-10 14:09 ` Daniel J Walsh
2004-12-10 14:31 ` Stephen Smalley
2004-12-10 15:43 ` Colin Walters
2004-12-10 16:33 ` Casey Schaufler
2004-12-13 13:25 ` Russell Coker
2004-12-13 13:56 ` Daniel J Walsh
2004-12-13 14:19 ` Russell Coker
2004-12-09 19:07 ` Thomas Bleher
2004-12-09 19:19 ` Russell Coker
2004-12-09 17:28 ` Colin Walters
2004-12-09 18:02 ` Russell Coker
2004-12-09 19:45 ` Daniel J Walsh
2004-12-09 20:07 ` Stephen Smalley
2004-12-09 20:13 ` Russell Coker
2004-12-09 20:22 ` Daniel J Walsh
2004-12-09 20:30 ` Russell Coker
2004-12-09 21:38 ` Thomas Bleher
2004-12-10 2:56 ` Russell Coker
2004-12-09 22:29 ` Colin Walters
2004-12-10 13:11 ` Stephen Smalley
2004-12-10 16:28 ` Colin Walters
2004-12-09 21:16 ` Thomas Bleher
2004-12-10 2:58 ` Russell Coker
2004-12-09 22:43 ` Colin Walters
2004-12-10 2:23 ` Russell Coker
2004-12-10 15:48 ` Colin Walters
2004-12-10 21:58 ` Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
2004-12-09 19:38 ` Daniel J Walsh
2004-12-09 19:58 ` Stephen Smalley
2004-12-09 20:09 ` Daniel J Walsh
2004-12-09 20:17 ` Russell Coker
2004-12-09 20:38 ` Daniel J Walsh
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-12-09 18:50 Alex Ackerman
2004-12-09 19:29 ` Russell Coker
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