From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from goalie.tycho.ncsc.mil (goalie [144.51.242.250]) by tarius.tycho.ncsc.mil (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id s426XXeI003228 for ; Fri, 2 May 2014 02:33:33 -0400 Received: by mail-ie0-f182.google.com with SMTP id tp5so4632579ieb.41 for ; Thu, 01 May 2014 23:33:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.2] ([59.89.16.173]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id qd9sm2075084igb.12.2014.05.01.23.33.31 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Thu, 01 May 2014 23:33:33 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <53633B9F.7010307@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 02 May 2014 12:00:55 +0530 From: dE MIME-Version: 1.0 To: selinux@tycho.nsa.gov Subject: Re: What's a policy configuration file? References: <53627C9F.9020109@gmail.com> <53628456.8020407@gmail.com> <1398966664.19535.20.camel@x220.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1398966664.19535.20.camel@x220.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed List-Id: "Security-Enhanced Linux \(SELinux\) mailing list" List-Post: List-Help: On 05/01/14 23:21, Dominick Grift wrote: > On Thu, 2014-05-01 at 22:58 +0530, dE wrote: > >> http://www.nsa.gov/research/_files/selinux/papers/policy2/x109.shtml >> >> http://selinuxproject.org/page/ConfigurationFiles#Policy_Configuration_Files >> >> I would like to know what the official website means -- it's definitely >> the sources. I hope I'll read about policy.conf in the NSA reference. > I suppose it can have various meanings depending on the context in which > the term is used. > > Policy IS configuration, and so any file with policy in it in any format > could be referred to as "policy configuration" file > > Then there are the configuration files that are distributed with the > policy configuration. I suppose technically those are "policy > configuration" configuration files. > > There there is often also a configuration files that specifies the > options with which a policy configuration is compiled, and so i suppose > one could also refer to that file as a "policy configuration" > configuration file. > > Welcome to the wonderful world of SELinux terminology! > I've never read about the config in para 3. As of the termionogy -- I'm sure the policy source file should be called policy source not 'policy config' for the same reason as C/C++ source files are called the source.