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* run_init requires full path.
@ 2006-09-20 15:30 Daniel J Walsh
  2006-09-20 21:07 ` Stephen Smalley
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Daniel J Walsh @ 2006-09-20 15:30 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Stephen Smalley, SE Linux

Why does run_init require me to have the full path?  Is there a security 
reason for this?

The basic problem is run_init, does a chdir("/") before execing the app.

So if I want to run a test script
run_init test.sh or
run_init ./test.sh

does not work.

I end up having to do
run_init `pwd`/test.sh



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* Re: run_init requires full path.
  2006-09-20 15:30 run_init requires full path Daniel J Walsh
@ 2006-09-20 21:07 ` Stephen Smalley
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Stephen Smalley @ 2006-09-20 21:07 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Daniel J Walsh; +Cc: SE Linux

On Wed, 2006-09-20 at 11:30 -0400, Daniel J Walsh wrote:
> Why does run_init require me to have the full path?  Is there a security 
> reason for this?
> 
> The basic problem is run_init, does a chdir("/") before execing the app.
> 
> So if I want to run a test script
> run_init test.sh or
> run_init ./test.sh
> 
> does not work.
> 
> I end up having to do
> run_init `pwd`/test.sh

See:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=selinux&m=102077444021285&w=2

Otherwise, it is quite common to run into audit noise when the init
script or daemon tries to access the cwd.

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Stephen Smalley
National Security Agency


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