From: sven.vermeulen@siphos.be (Sven Vermeulen)
To: refpolicy@oss.tresys.com
Subject: [refpolicy] [PATCH v3 1/1] The /var/qmail root is generic in nature (and definitely not qmail_etc_t)
Date: Wed, 28 May 2014 21:23:16 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140528192315.GA22636@siphos.be> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5386221B.4090903@redhat.com>
On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 01:51:23PM -0400, Daniel J Walsh wrote:
> The problem with this change, is it would break a confined admin. If a
> confined admin tried to create new content in /var/qmail he would be denied.
> > -/var/qmail(/.*)? gen_context(system_u:object_r:qmail_etc_t,s0)
> > +/var/qmail/.+ gen_context(system_u:object_r:qmail_etc_t,s0)
In that case it would make more sense to follow the best practice that is
used by most daemons, that is to label /var/qmail as a qmail-specific
variable type (like qmail_var_t) and have specific files under it as the
configuration type (qmail_etc_t) as needed.
It sucks a bit that qmail has this change structure. It is the original (?)
qmail.fc author that contacted me about this, as the (then NSA-provided)
qmail.fc didn't mark /var/qmail as qmail_etc_t.
Wkr,
Sven Vermeulen
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-05-28 19:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-05-28 17:11 [refpolicy] [PATCH v3 1/1] The /var/qmail root is generic in nature (and definitely not qmail_etc_t) Sven Vermeulen
2014-05-28 17:51 ` Daniel J Walsh
2014-05-28 19:23 ` Sven Vermeulen [this message]
2014-05-29 3:15 ` Petre Rodan
2014-06-02 15:17 ` Christopher J. PeBenito
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