From: "Christopher J. PeBenito" <cpebenito@tresys.com>
To: dE <de.techno@gmail.com>, <selinux@tycho.nsa.gov>
Subject: Re: The use of fscontext(iso9660_t)
Date: Tue, 27 May 2014 08:48:45 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <538489AD.9090205@tresys.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5382DCB2.3010400@gmail.com>
On 05/26/2014 02:18 AM, dE wrote:
> The obvious point of a type value for a certain FS is to restrict programs from doing things which are not allowed on that FS.
>
> iso9660/UDF etc... is a RO FS. So writing on it should not be allowed. But I can write to files having this security context.
>
> So what's the utility of, atleast iso9660_t?
Questions about Reference Policy should be asked on its list.
The purpose of iso9660_t is to provide a separate type for that media, not to reinforce the fact that the disks are read-only by policy. By being a file type, certain domains can write to it since they can write to all file types.
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Chris PeBenito
Tresys Technology, LLC
www.tresys.com | oss.tresys.com
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2014-05-26 6:18 The use of fscontext(iso9660_t) dE
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