Re: file_type_auto_trans is not sufficient

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl@lkcl.net>]

On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 01:37:23PM -0400, Ivan Gyurdiev wrote:
> 
> > Problem is that they both want to create directly in /tmp.  It would be
> > preferable if they had a dedicated subtree, e.g. /tmp/gconfd
> > and /tmp/orbit, with all per-user subdirectories underneath, so that the
> > top-level directory could be typed separately and set up a priori (at
> > boot if truly under /tmp, as they might otherwise have been deleted).
> 
> So you're saying that the directories should be created ahead of time by
> a startup script, and restorecon executed on them... something 
> like tmpskel? Maybe that can be used for libICE, which I want to
> label /tmp/.ICE-unix as ice_tmp_t.
 
 there is a whole slew of legacy applications that assume
 access to /tmp/.ICE-unix, /tmp/.X11-unix etc.

 it's a known problem for which the solution - creating tmp
 subdirectories - has been "scheduled" / "shelved".

 l.


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