From: Daniel J Walsh <dwalsh@redhat.com>
To: "Christopher J. PeBenito" <cpebenito@tresys.com>
Cc: SE Linux <selinux@tycho.nsa.gov>
Subject: Re: Policy patch for hal
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 15:56:14 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <45E3496E.8080605@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1172518334.22224.16.camel@sgc>
Christopher J. PeBenito wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-02-20 at 11:54 -0500, Daniel J Walsh wrote:
>
>> Hal now is changing the attributes of sound device and video devices so
>> userswitching can happen.
>>
>> It reads and writes raw memory.
>>
>
> This is disappointing. With this and raw disk access, hal is basically
> unconfined. Is there any chance we can figure out what these perms are
> tied to so they could potentially be made conditional?
>
We are beginning to break it up, so some sub packages of hal (hal_acl)
have different powers, but the nature of the tool is going to give it
lots of power.
>
>> It has a new cache directory where it wants to store stuff.
>>
>> Needs to telinit to change runlevel.
>>
>>
>>
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-02-20 16:54 Policy patch for hal Daniel J Walsh
2007-02-26 19:32 ` Christopher J. PeBenito
2007-02-26 20:56 ` Daniel J Walsh [this message]
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