From: "Sutton, Harry (GSE)" <harry.sutton@hp.com>
To: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Cc: selinux@tycho.nsa.gov
Subject: Re: semanage: should -a imply -m?
Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2012 08:39:09 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5066EBED.3060609@hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1348859914.2845.4.camel@localhost>
On 09/28/2012 03:18 PM, Eric Paris wrote:
> What do others think about this? Should we cause -a to act like -m or
> should it abort? Should we force the -a -> -m logic up to the caller?
> I guess I'm fine with either. Is semanage -a enough like semodule -i
> and -m like -u that this would actually be expected behavior?
>
I'm inclined to think it should be the other way around, that is, -m
should act like -a.
If you create a new rule using semanage -a that differs in multiple but
potentially subtle ways from an existing entry you are unaware of, the
result may not be at all what you wanted; in that case, the user should
be warned that the record already exists. Maybe a compromise, to improve
usability, would be to test for single vs multiple changes before
throwing an error.
/Harry
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-28 19:18 semanage: should -a imply -m? Eric Paris
2012-09-29 12:39 ` Sutton, Harry (GSE) [this message]
2012-10-01 9:22 ` Daniel J Walsh
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