From: Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au>
To: Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl@lkcl.net>
Cc: SE-Linux <selinux@tycho.nsa.gov>
Subject: Re: mount accessing /dev/cdrom as a symlink
Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2004 17:08:23 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200408291708.23368.russell@coker.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040828181909.GF11546@lkcl.net>
On Sun, 29 Aug 2004 04:19, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl@lkcl.net> wrote:
> i had to add this to the mount.te policy in order to allow mount
> to actually succeed on a udev-automatically-created /dev/cdrom symlink
> (to /dev/hdc which is my ide cdrom drive).
>
> so, the question is: should udev have relabelled that symlink correctly,
> or should mount be allowed to read device_t symlinks?
Mount should be allowed to read device_t symlinks. There should be no symlink
under /dev with a type other than device_t under the current design.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-08-29 7:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-08-28 18:19 mount accessing /dev/cdrom as a symlink Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
2004-08-29 7:08 ` Russell Coker [this message]
2004-08-29 9:11 ` Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
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