From: Daniel J Walsh <dwalsh@redhat.com>
To: jwcart2@tycho.nsa.gov
Cc: SELinux <selinux@tycho.nsa.gov>
Subject: Re: SELinux Policy compiler doesn't like leading numbers in fs names
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 13:59:33 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D2DFA15.60805@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1294858566.2276.9.camel@moss-lions.epoch.ncsc.mil>
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On 01/12/2011 01:56 PM, James Carter wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-01-12 at 13:36 -0500, Daniel J Walsh wrote:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=668871
>
> Is there any logical reason for this or is this just a bug?
>
>> The filesystem name for a genfscon statement happens to be specified as
>> an identifier and an identifier must begin with a letter, but I don't
>> think that there is any technical reason for the restriction.
>
>> Would we want to allow all identifiers to be able to start with
>> alphanumeric characters (or maybe even "_") or just filesystem names?
>
>>
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I would say allow any alphanumeric and _, and then let the refpolicy
guidelines control what gets into that policy. Forcing IBM to change
the name of their file system for SELinux seems a little nuts.
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2011-01-12 18:36 SELinux Policy compiler doesn't like leading numbers in fs names Daniel J Walsh
2011-01-12 18:56 ` James Carter
2011-01-12 18:59 ` Daniel J Walsh [this message]
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