From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from jazzdrum.ncsc.mil (zombie.ncsc.mil [144.51.88.131]) by tycho.ncsc.mil (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id iBALm2Ii023864 for ; Fri, 10 Dec 2004 16:48:02 -0500 (EST) Received: from open.hands.com (jazzdrum.ncsc.mil [144.51.5.7]) by jazzdrum.ncsc.mil (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id iBALm3R8013727 for ; Fri, 10 Dec 2004 21:48:04 GMT Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 21:58:35 +0000 From: Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton To: Colin Walters Cc: Russell Coker , Daniel J Walsh , Stephen Smalley , SE Linux list , Joshua Brindle , Jim Carter , Nalin Dahyabhai Subject: Re: Single home directory type for all roles. Message-ID: <20041210215835.GA5239@lkcl.net> References: <20041207000805.GH3678@jmh.mhn.de> <1102534349.30962.25.camel@moss-lions.epoch.ncsc.mil> <41B8826D.30105@redhat.com> <1102613299.10785.21.camel@nexus.verbum.private> <1102615344.4509.39.camel@aeon> <1102632223.10785.36.camel@nexus.verbum.private> <1102645414.4509.105.camel@aeon> <1102693682.10785.44.camel@nexus.verbum.private> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <1102693682.10785.44.camel@nexus.verbum.private> Sender: owner-selinux@tycho.nsa.gov List-Id: selinux@tycho.nsa.gov On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 10:48:02AM -0500, Colin Walters wrote: > If you want this, then why not just make your normal account user_r, and > log in as root on the console? > > > Also note that many daemons look for configuration or data files > > under /root, this is due to bugs in daemons but many of them are not > > expected to be fixed for quite a while. > > Point, but we should fix those bugs. e.g. if anyone's interested (and using it) - spamassassin, which attempts to dump log files (as root) pretty much evvveeerryyywhere. -- 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.