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From: Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl@lkcl.net>
To: Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au>
Cc: SELinux List <SELinux@tycho.nsa.gov>
Subject: Re: policy patch
Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2004 16:32:32 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041125163232.GA26737@lkcl.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200411260027.41899.russell@coker.com.au>

On Fri, Nov 26, 2004 at 12:27:39AM +1100, Russell Coker wrote:
> The attached patch makes some trivial policy changes.
> 
> Allows Debian systems to touch /etc from an init script.
 
 i fixed the /etc/init.d script which does the /etc touching,
 sent a patch to the maintainer of initscripts.

 lessavalook.... yes: mountvirtfs - it calls a bash function
 dir_writable on /etc/ in order to determine whether /etc/mtab
 is writeable, which is a bit of a daft way to do it.

 the patch version, iirc, attempts to touch /etc/mtab instead
 (if it's not a symlink).

 afaik, this is the only reason for allowing debian init
 scripts to write to /etc and it's not a very good one!

 l.
 

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  reply	other threads:[~2004-11-25 16:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-11-25 13:27 policy patch Russell Coker
2004-11-25 16:32 ` Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton [this message]
2004-11-25 19:05   ` Russell Coker
2004-11-25 20:34     ` Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
2004-11-29 19:23 ` James Carter
2004-11-29 21:47 ` Daniel J Walsh
2004-11-30 16:42 ` Daniel J Walsh
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-08-18  7:31 Russell Coker
2005-01-12 18:46 [Fwd: New policy patch] Daniel J Walsh
2005-01-21 20:36 ` James Carter
2005-03-29 16:47   ` Policy Patch Daniel J Walsh
2005-04-01 20:28     ` James Carter
2004-10-13  5:55 policy patch Russell Coker
2004-10-13 20:17 ` James Carter
2004-08-24  8:18 Russell Coker
2004-08-24 12:23 ` Stephen Smalley
2004-08-24 16:54   ` Russell Coker
2004-08-27 20:58 ` James Carter
2004-08-28 13:46   ` Russell Coker
2004-08-30 20:24     ` James Carter
2004-07-12 14:12 Russell Coker
2004-07-12 19:46 ` Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
2004-07-11  7:59 Russell Coker
2004-07-12 13:30 ` Stephen Smalley
2004-07-04  5:04 Russell Coker
2004-07-07 20:47 ` Stephen Smalley
2002-12-03 14:47 Stephen D. Smalley
2002-11-29 11:45 Russell Coker
2002-09-21  4:39 Russell Coker

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