Re: automatic type transitions for pts in devfs

[Debian User <rogelio@evoworks.evoserve.com>]

Stephen Smalley wrote:

>On Tue, 9 Jul 2002, Debian User wrote:
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>>So I focus on hooks.c. This is basically getting the inodes labelled
>>correctly.
>>Either we add some new fields(?) in the inode structure or we insert a
>>condition that would make the inode get the proper label. Is that correct?
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>You could add a test within the sbsec->uses_genfs case to see whether the
>filesystem type is devfs and whether the inode corresponds to a /pts node.
>If so, then you want to use a transition SID as with the sbsec->uses_trans
>case.  Otherwise, you would use genfs_contexts as usual.
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cool! i see it now. this is great. this is the first time i hacked devfs 
and selinux!
Thanks!

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>Stephen D. Smalley, NAI Labs
>ssmalley@nai.com
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