[refpolicy] Labeling of ~/.local, ~/.config, ... owned by gnome though not gnome specific

[nicky726@gmail.com (Nicky726)]

Dne ?t 16. z??? 2010 21:22:07 jste napsal(a):
> On 09/16/2010 12:16 PM, Nicky726 wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > while working on confinement of selected KDE apps, I came to following
> > issue:
> > 
> > Directories ~/.config, ~/.local, ~/.local/share (and possibly others) are
> > labeled as config_home_t, gconf_home_t and data_home_t all owned by gnome
> > module. These directories are used by much more programs than just GNOME,
> > ranging from KDE apps, pure Qt or GTK apps to for exaple ibus. User's
> > trash is also put in one of those.
> > Therefore I think, that the directories should be labeled with types that
> > are owned by another application/DE unspecific module (Dominick Grift in
> > conversation mentioned these are part of freedesktop specifications, so
> > I guess it can be named eg. freedesktop). And their naming should also
> > resign from application specific names, which is the case of
> > gconf_home_t for ~/.local.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Ondrej Vadinsky
> 
> That is fine, and messages like this should go to the refpolicy mail
> list. refpolicy at oss.tresys.com

Those types seem to be part of Fedora SELinux policy, I could not find them in 
refpolicy, therefore I wrote to Fedora mailing list.

> We have lots of types that have used specific applications and ended up
> being used by other applications.  We have not gone back and changed the
> names, mainly because of the hassle.  For example.
> 
> /usr/bin/epiphany	--	system_u:object_r:mozilla_exec_t:s0

Uh, ok, if you say so.

Regards,
Ondrej Vadinsky

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