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From: Daniel J Walsh <dwalsh@redhat.com>
To: SELinux <SELinux@tycho.nsa.gov>
Subject: Problems with /dev/tty on reboot.
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 08:48:27 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3FC4AF2B.3060301@redhat.com> (raw)

How should we handle the situation where contexts end up in the wrong 
contexts because of crashes or reboots.

Currently if you login to a box as user_t, and then the system crashes 
or you reboot the /dev/tty has the wrong context on it, so if the next 
user that attempts to login has staff_t he will not be able to gain 
access to the device.  I have put a
setfiles file_context /dev/tty in my rc scripts as a stop gap, but that 
is not a clean solution.  Also this can probably happen to other files 
that have their contexts changed by running processes.  Ideas on how to 
solve this problem??

Dan


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             reply	other threads:[~2003-11-26 13:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-11-26 13:48 Daniel J Walsh [this message]
2003-11-26 14:14 ` Problems with /dev/tty on reboot Stephen Smalley
2003-11-26 14:50   ` Daniel J Walsh
2003-11-26 15:33     ` Stephen Smalley
2003-11-26 16:26       ` Daniel J Walsh
2003-11-26 16:33 ` Tom

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