From: dwalsh@redhat.com (Daniel J Walsh)
To: refpolicy@oss.tresys.com
Subject: [refpolicy] [PATCH 5/34]: patch to label XDG config files and allow policykit to use them
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 15:56:43 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D5C3A0B.4070907@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110216205154.GB5937@siphos.be>
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On 02/16/2011 03:51 PM, Sven Vermeulen wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 07:00:59AM +0100, Guido Trentalancia wrote:
>> This patch labels HOME_DIR/\.config as gnome_home_t and then
>> allows policykit to read such kind of files.
>
> Afaik, this location is used by much more than gnome applications. I don't
> have GNOME installed but it is still there for things like XFCE4, epdfview,
> zathura etc.
>
> The .config location seems to be part of the XDG Base Directory
> Specification (I believe dgrift once referred me to this), independent of
> GNOME.
>
> Perhaps it is more wise to call it user_config_t or user_xdg_config_t (and
> xdg_config_t for /etc/xdg etc.)? That way, the necessary privileges can be
> offered in an XDG-specific set of interfaces for all applications adhering
> to this specification (rather than using gnome_* interfaces even though they
> are not GNOME related).
>
> Wkr,
> Sven Vermeulen
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In Fedora is it labeled config_home_t
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-02-16 20:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-02-16 6:00 [refpolicy] [PATCH 5/34]: patch to label XDG config files and allow policykit to use them Guido Trentalancia
2011-02-16 20:51 ` Sven Vermeulen
2011-02-16 20:56 ` Daniel J Walsh [this message]
2011-02-16 21:28 ` Guido Trentalancia
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