Re: cifs_t

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl@lkcl.net>]

On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 02:18:12PM -0400, Stephen Smalley wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-07-05 at 09:52, Russell Coker wrote:
> > typealias sambafs_t alias cifs_t;
> > 
> > What is the benefit of the above?
> > 
> > If we are going to make cifs_t the new name for what is currently sambafs_t 
> > then surely the correct thing to do is to change the declaration of sambafs_t 
> > to cifs_t and use the following typealias:
> > 
> > typealias cifs_t alias sambafs_t;
> 
> Looking at the CVS tree, it appears that it was changed from cifs_t to
> sambafs_t on 5/4/2004, as part of a merge of a policy diff from Fedora. 
> cifs_t was retained as an alias for compatibility, IIRC.
 
 i understand from russell that cifs_t (sambafs_t) is for client-side
 access auditing (not from server-side stuff as i originally assumed).

 ... what happens when wine, which is in the process of implementing its
 own [entire] smb client access method, due to license incompatibility
 [and intransigence] of samba [team], provides an alternative
 non-samba-based SMB access system?

 ... or is that something to worry about for another day, as-and-when?

 l.

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