From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from jazzdrum.ncsc.mil (zombie.ncsc.mil [144.51.88.131]) by tarius.tycho.ncsc.mil (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l1RLScgS011152 for ; Tue, 27 Feb 2007 16:28:38 -0500 Received: from web51515.mail.yahoo.com (jazzdrum.ncsc.mil [144.51.5.7]) by jazzdrum.ncsc.mil (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id l1RLU07G027981 for ; Tue, 27 Feb 2007 21:30:00 GMT Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 13:29:23 -0800 (PST) From: Steve G Subject: Re: [PATCH] Lazy config init in libselinux To: Stephen Smalley Cc: SE Linux , Daniel J Walsh , Karl MacMillan In-Reply-To: <1172610646.19041.419.camel@moss-spartans.epoch.ncsc.mil> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Message-ID: <425863.72079.qm@web51515.mail.yahoo.com> Sender: owner-selinux@tycho.nsa.gov List-Id: selinux@tycho.nsa.gov >> however, they are not used in any selinux config file I've ever seen. >> Are they brand new and never used? Is there a reason they are >> not in /etc/selinux/config by default? > >Only CACHETRANS appears to be an issue. You only need to define them >in /etc/selinux/config if you want something other than the default >value. I don't see that one in the config file so I think everyone is using the default value. >It was added back when the libselinux client-side support for context >translation was merged, upon someone's specific request on list. So >we'd have to go back to that discussion. I bet it was worked around and not needed. We should revisit that discussion since it appears to not be defined in the default config file. >> What about /etc/security...is that still used? Should that go away? > >Likely obsolete, although we'd need to post an rfc asking whether any >distro is still using that as the location for their policy files. Sure. I was just pointing out the fact its there and is likely deprecated. -Steve ____________________________________________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail beta. http://new.mail.yahoo.com -- 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.