[refpolicy] Updated ntp policy

Daniel J Walsh dwalsh at redhat.com
Thu Sep 11 10:28:25 CDT 2008


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Christopher J. PeBenito wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-08-25 at 11:52 -0400, Daniel J Walsh wrote:
>> http://people.fedoraproject.org/~dwalsh/SELinux/Policy/services_ntp.patch
>>
>> Added support for ntpd_key_t for defining crypto information.  Prevent
>> other domains from reading.
>>
>> ntp needs getcap
>> Uses shm for talking to certain time devices.
>>
>> Add gpsd support
>>
>> Talks to ptmx also for time devices
> 
> One thing that is weird is this:
> 
> +# Necessary to communicate with gpsd devices
> +fs_rw_tmpfs_files(ntpd_t)
> 
> it sounds like there is a missing filetrans here.
> 
We can try this, but I am not sure if the gpsd device created the file
for communication in the tmpfs first.
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