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Subject: Re: initial_sid context via libsepol
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On 03/07/2016 10:41 AM, Richard Haines wrote:
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>> On Saturday, 5 March 2016, 14:48, Richard Haines <richard_c_haines@btinternet.com> wrote:
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>> On Friday, 4 March 2016, 21:18, "Roberts, William C"
>> <william.c.roberts@intel.com> wrote:
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>>> How can one obtain the same value as /sys/fs/selinux/initial_contexts/file
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>>> I’ve been digging around libsepol and its not quite clear to me.
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>>> It looks as though the record is here:
>>>                  context_struct_t *a = &((policydb_t
>> *)pol.db)->ocontexts[OCON_ISID]->context[0];
>>>                  context_struct_t *b = &((policydb_t
>> *)pol.db)->ocontexts[OCON_ISID]->context[1];
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>>>                  printf("%u\n", a->type);
>>>                  printf("%u\n",b->type);
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>>> Prints:
>>> 185
>>> 0
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>>> Not sure if this is right, and how to format the context struct to a string.
>> I didn’t see any helpers.
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>> I've attached an example, hope it's useful
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> I've updated the example with more detail and display SID name using SID value not counter.
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Any particular reason you didn't use sepol_sid_to_context()?