[refpolicy] new svn refpolicy difficuties:

[Christopher J. PeBenito]

On Tue, 2008-12-02 at 11:41 -0800, Justin P. Mattock wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-12-02 at 13:53 -0500, Christopher J. PeBenito wrote:
> > On Tue, 2008-12-02 at 07:57 -0800, Justin P. Mattock wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2008-12-02 at 08:13 -0500, Christopher J. PeBenito wrote:
> > > > On Sun, 2008-11-30 at 22:19 -0800, Justin P. Mattock wrote:
> > > > > With the latest refpolicy, I'm 
> > > > > able to have all of the allow rules
> > > > > during the boot process applied to the policy,
> > > > > but as soon as I add any of the allow rules
> > > > > after startx, with any role I'm denied 
> > > > > with building the policy i.g.
> > > > > 
> > > > > :ERROR 'type staff_dbusd_t is not within scope' at token ';' on line
> > > > > 2581459:
> > > > > 
> > > > > I think this has to do with my policy/users
> > > > > file.(where can I find info on setting a prefix?)
> > > > 
> > > > I suspect it is actually related to this:
> > > > 
> > > > http://marc.info/?l=selinux&m=122477138927253&w=2
> > > > 
> > > > What changes have you made (if any) to the policy?  Also the
> > > > policy/modules.conf and build.conf?
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > This is the same issue from a few weeks ago
> > > (just never got around to working it);
> > > as for changes to the modules.conf, I sent
> > > you that a few weeks ago, which basically has nothing modified
> > > (my goal is to keep the policy as generic as possible
> > > no tweaking of any kind); I do modify the build.conf
> > > and policy/users.
> > > as for the users I set
> > > gen_user(user,system_u, sysadm_r staff_r user_r, s0, s0 -mls_systemhigh,
> > > mcs_allcats)
> > > 
> > > and the build.conf I change the policy number setting
> > > debian, monolithic=y deny unkown=y not much stuff..
> > > 
> > > Overall,
> > > I'm not sure but after reading the users file it say's 
> > >  
> > > Note: Identities without a prefix wil not be listed
> > > in the users_extra file used by genhomedircon.
> > > (BTW there a typo in there "will") 
> > > 
> > > This here tells me that If I don't have this set
> > > correctly(prefix), I won't be able to build the policy
> > > accordingly with my user name and roles? hence the always
> > > an error during compiling when I add something like
> > > staff_dbus_t. 
> > > If I have this correct will
> > > staff_dbus_t change to staff_t? or something to satisfy
> > > the compiling of the policy...
> > 
> > No.  This is error is not related to this.  The users_extra content is
> > used for genhomedircon, and is in fact no longer used now that there is
> > UBAC.  It has to do with issues with scoping in the compiler.  I can't
> > reproduce this, where did you put the rules?
> > 
> 
> To make things easy I just put them in 
> policy/modules/services/xserver.te
> (at the bottom)
> probably not the right way,
> but for testing purposes
> make things run faster for me.

I think the toolchain fixes that I mentioned in the link above will fix
this.  To work around it, you would have to put the rules in the (dbus|
ssh|sudo)role template.

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Chris PeBenito
Tresys Technology, LLC
(410) 290-1411 x150