From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Sun, 9 Oct 2005 23:08:38 +0100 From: Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton To: Russell Coker Cc: Dale Amon , Stephen Smalley , SELinux List Subject: Re: More Debian bugs Message-ID: <20051009220838.GZ18797@lkcl.net> References: <20050923195227.GA21546@vnl.com> <200510092019.41106.russell@coker.com.au> <20051009145000.GU18797@lkcl.net> <200510100645.01903.russell@coker.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <200510100645.01903.russell@coker.com.au> Sender: owner-selinux@tycho.nsa.gov List-Id: selinux@tycho.nsa.gov On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 06:44:50AM +1000, Russell Coker wrote: > On Monday 10 October 2005 00:50, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton > wrote: > > > One thing to note is that udev now seems a standard part of sid. Udev on > > > it's own seems a bit broken in Debian (for example not mounting > > > /dev/pts), and in conjunction with SE Linux there's even more fun. I > > > don't expect udev and SE Linux to work well together on Debian for some > > > weeks or maybe months. > > > > ah. > > > > there are two ways this needs to be fixed. > > > > 1) initrd removed from debian > > > > 2) udev moved into initrd like you have with redhat. > > 3) Bugs in udev just get fixed. This is the one I expect to happen. until 2) happens, debian/selinux is vulnerable to the "/dev being moved to /.dev and getting relabelled inappropriately or accidentally having selinux filecontexts removed by fsck and there being nothing to put them back" problem because no-one wants to or will acknowledge whether it's appropriate to add /.dev/* to the file contexts source alongside /dev and /udev *grumble, rhubarb* :) l. -- 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.