From: Joshua Brindle <method@manicmethod.com>
To: Daniel J Walsh <dwalsh@redhat.com>
Cc: SELinux <selinux@tycho.nsa.gov>
Subject: Re: Patch to run genhomedircon without looking at /etc/passwd
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 20:40:03 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B872673.4030806@manicmethod.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B86E6CC.9000405@redhat.com>
Daniel J Walsh wrote:
> I want to change the default of libsemanage to not look for home
> directories in getpwent. This patch allows you to set the flag
> usepasswd=false in the semanage.conf file. and genhomedircon will only
> setup the labeling of /home, /export/home and any confined users
> homedirs.
>
> If this patch is not acceptable because libsemanage is being
> rewritten, I would like the functionality to be added to the new
> libsemanage.
This looks completely reasonable. Interesting that the function always
supported turning it off but we never exposed that.
As a side note, libsemanage isn't being rewritten, some of it may go
away some day but not anytime soon (at least not until CIL is able to
fill in all the gaps).
Acked-by: Joshua Brindle <method@manicmethod.com>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-02-26 1:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-02-25 21:08 Patch to run genhomedircon without looking at /etc/passwd Daniel J Walsh
2010-02-26 1:40 ` Joshua Brindle [this message]
2010-03-06 23:13 ` Joshua Brindle
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