From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Russell Coker Reply-To: russell@coker.com.au To: Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton Subject: Re: policy patch Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2004 06:05:09 +1100 Cc: SELinux List References: <200411260027.41899.russell@coker.com.au> <20041125163232.GA26737@lkcl.net> In-Reply-To: <20041125163232.GA26737@lkcl.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Message-Id: <200411260605.12580.russell@coker.com.au> Sender: owner-selinux@tycho.nsa.gov List-Id: selinux@tycho.nsa.gov On Friday 26 November 2004 03:32, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > 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. Great! Now when will that patch go into Debian/main? > afaik, this is the only reason for allowing debian init > scripts to write to /etc and it's not a very good one! I agree. But until the script gets fixed I think I have to do this to stop systems failing to correctly boot. -- http://www.coker.com.au/selinux/ My NSA Security Enhanced Linux packages http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/ Bonnie++ hard drive benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/postal/ Postal SMTP/POP benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/~russell/ My home page -- This message was distributed to subscribers of the selinux mailing list. If you no longer wish to subscribe, send mail to majordomo@tycho.nsa.gov with the words "unsubscribe selinux" without quotes as the message.