Re: Fedora Core 7 has frozen and Fedora 8 Development has started

[Joshua Brindle <method@manicmethod.com>]

Todd Miller wrote:
> Joshua Brindle wrote:
>   
>> How would the client get that kind of information? apol is the only
>> app I know if that does any kind of relabel analysis to see what who
>> can relabel what-to-what and that would be a pretty high level
>> dependency for nautilus (and it also uses the policy on disk instead
>> of the one loaded into the kernel). Also the list would be completely
>> unusable when run from unconfined_t, which is the normal use case.   
>>     
>
> There was a proof of concept file label utility in SEDarwin that used a
> sysctl to get the list of allowable file contexts for a user.  Like you
> say, it was basically useless from unconfined_t (it was initially
> written for the old example policy).
>   

What does allowable file context mean?

You need to be able to do an analysis on the policy to see what user can 
relabelfrom and what they can relabelto. If they can't relabelfrom the 
file being modified in nautilus then nothing should appear, otherwise 
the types they can relabelto would appear.

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