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From: Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl@lkcl.net>
To: Stephen Smalley <sds@epoch.ncsc.mil>
Cc: Colin Walters <walters@redhat.com>,
	Daniel J Walsh <dwalsh@redhat.com>,
	SELinux <SELinux@tycho.nsa.gov>
Subject: Re: Added is_context_configurable function
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 18:19:31 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050112181931.GE26175@lkcl.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1105539555.22495.28.camel@moss-spartans.epoch.ncsc.mil>

On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 09:19:15AM -0500, Stephen Smalley wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-01-11 at 17:10, Colin Walters wrote:
> > I've said this before, but I don't like the idea of having to edit
> > file_contexts whenever I want to change the labels.  I feel that the 
> > on-disk version should be canonical, and the file_contexts only used for
> > system initialization.
> 
> That is also my view.  However, if people are going to run setfiles or
> restorecon at runtime to check or set contexts (which is current
> practice in Fedora), then we do need a way to distinguish legitimate
> customizations 

 ... so there _is_ actually a genuine requirement to minimise the
 number of changes to policy files?

 l.


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-01-12 18:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-01-10 22:17 Added is_context_configurable function Daniel J Walsh
2005-01-11 15:22 ` Stephen Smalley
2005-01-11 16:12   ` Daniel J Walsh
2005-01-11 20:00     ` Stephen Smalley
2005-01-11 20:31       ` Daniel J Walsh
2005-01-11 20:35         ` Stephen Smalley
2005-01-11 20:58           ` Daniel J Walsh
2005-01-11 22:25             ` Colin Walters
2005-01-11 22:10       ` Colin Walters
2005-01-12  0:19         ` Casey Schaufler
2005-01-12 14:19         ` Stephen Smalley
2005-01-12 14:44           ` Daniel J Walsh
2005-01-12 15:37           ` Daniel J Walsh
2005-01-20 15:29             ` Stephen Smalley
2005-01-12 15:39           ` Daniel J Walsh
2005-01-20 15:32             ` Stephen Smalley
2005-01-12 15:48           ` Colin Walters
2005-01-12 22:09             ` Stephen Smalley
2005-01-13  3:52               ` Colin Walters
2005-01-13 14:55                 ` Daniel J Walsh
2005-01-13 15:53                   ` Colin Walters
2005-01-13 16:01                     ` Daniel J Walsh
2005-01-13 14:57               ` Daniel J Walsh
2005-01-12 18:19           ` Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton [this message]
2005-01-12 18:15             ` Colin Walters

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