Re: Permissive mode for xace is broken.

[Daniel J Walsh <dwalsh@redhat.com>]

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Stephen Smalley wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 09:12 -0500, Stephen Smalley wrote:
>> On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 09:09 -0500, Daniel J Walsh wrote:
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>>> If I turn on xserver_object_manager in rawhide and log in as staff_t in
>>> permissive mode, I get all sorts of things failing, which makes writing
>>> policy for it very difficult.  And is very broken.
>> Hmmm...as I understood it, XSELinux should follow the kernel's enforcing
>> status by default (i.e. if the kernel is permissive, then so should
>> XSELinux), unless you explicitly configure enforcing= in xorg.conf to
>> specify a different setting for the X server than the kernel.  You are
>> supposed to be able to make the X server permissive w/o making the
>> kernel permissive via xorg configuration, I believe, although I'm not
>> sure that made it into the rawhide xorg yet.
> 
> Doesn't look like the rawhide xorg server has that support yet.
> 
> But it should follow the kernel's enforcing status.  You should see log
> messages with "received setenforce notice (enforcing=...)" in them from
> both dbus and X in either /var/log/messages or /var/log/audit/audit.log.
> 
Looking at the code, I do not see security_getenforce() in the code.
Are you saying that this is not necessary, the kernel will return
allowed but generate the AVC?

And the only one who mentions setenforce in /var/log/audit/audit.log in
dbus not X?


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