From: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
To: Roy Badami <roy.badami@roboreus.com>
Cc: selinux@tycho.nsa.gov
Subject: Re: CentOS 5 RBAC
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 14:23:12 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1314814992.6850.38.camel@moss-pluto> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E5E7757.5030007@roboreus.com>
On Wed, 2011-08-31 at 19:03 +0100, Roy Badami wrote:
> If the allow_sysadm_manage_security boolean was implemented in this
> policy then I could simply set that to 'off'. Given it's not -
> what's the best way to grant this permission to secadm_r only?
> Presumably I want to set secure_mode_loadpolicy to 'on' as now so that
> the shipped policy doesn't give permissions, and then load some custom
> TE rules to add the necessary permissions for secadm_r to administer
> security policy?
I think that would work and avoid the need to modify/rebuild the
existing policy.
However, be aware that the sysadm vs secadm distinction is largely
illusory even if you do this. See this thread for further discussion:
http://marc.info/?t=105457894700002&r=1&w=2
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Stephen Smalley
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-08-31 18:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-08-31 17:01 CentOS 5 RBAC Roy Badami
2011-08-31 17:15 ` Stephen Smalley
2011-08-31 18:03 ` Roy Badami
2011-08-31 18:23 ` Stephen Smalley [this message]
2011-08-31 18:25 ` Stephen Smalley
2011-09-02 11:37 ` Roy Badami
2011-09-02 12:30 ` Christopher J. PeBenito
2011-09-02 13:49 ` Roy Badami
2011-09-02 14:18 ` Dominick Grift
2011-08-31 17:24 ` Stephen Smalley
2011-08-31 18:03 ` Roy Badami
2011-08-31 17:48 ` Dominick Grift
2011-08-31 18:14 ` Roy Badami
2011-08-31 18:24 ` Dominick Grift
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