From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from zombie.ncsc.mil (zombie.ncsc.mil [144.51.88.131]) by tycho.ncsc.mil (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i7VA4nrT010913 for ; Tue, 31 Aug 2004 06:04:49 -0400 (EDT) Received: from open.hands.com (jazzdrum.ncsc.mil [144.51.5.7]) by zombie.ncsc.mil (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i7VA4m5m017566 for ; Tue, 31 Aug 2004 10:04:48 GMT Received: from lkcl.net (host81-152-10-162.range81-152.btcentralplus.com [81.152.10.162]) by open.hands.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16105BEEF for ; Tue, 31 Aug 2004 11:04:44 +0100 (BST) Received: from lkcl by lkcl.net with local (Exim 4.24) id 1C25gJ-0002sz-0T for selinux@tycho.nsa.gov; Tue, 31 Aug 2004 11:16:03 +0100 Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 11:16:02 +0100 From: Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton To: SE-Linux Subject: /dev entries which also need to be /.?u?dev'd Message-ID: <20040831101602.GB2098@lkcl.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-selinux@tycho.nsa.gov List-Id: selinux@tycho.nsa.gov the following entries presently marked as /dev need, imo, to also be modified to be ":%s/\/dev/\/.?u?dev/g" [in vi]. the reason is as i explained that if someone using udev [with or without tmpfs] does a setfiles /etc/selinux/src/file_contexts/file_contexsts /.dev then they are buggered, without the above. for example, /.dev/initctl will suddenly end up with a default_t type such that bootup will fail! also /dev/.udev.tdb was set to default_t as well which could have caused problems. it's all gone pear-shaped, gloop, gloop. l. -- -- Truth, honesty and respect are rare commodities that all spring from the same well: Love. If you love yourself and everyone and everything around you, funnily and coincidentally enough, life gets a lot better. -- lkcl.net
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