[refpolicy] system_unconfined.patch

Christopher J. PeBenito cpebenito at tresys.com
Tue Feb 16 07:54:12 CST 2010


On Sat, 2010-02-13 at 07:18 -0500, Daniel J Walsh wrote:
> On 02/12/2010 03:17 PM, Christopher J. PeBenito wrote:
> > On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 17:17 -0500, Daniel J Walsh wrote:
> >> http://people.fedoraproject.org/~dwalsh/SELinux/F12/system_unconfined.patch
> >>
> >> Split out unconfined_t from unconfined_domain.
> > 
> > I don't know if this will ever be upstreamable in a fashion you like.
> > My understanding is that you want to be able to have the unconfined_t
> > domain loaded without the unconfined_domain module loaded, so
> > unconfined_t is the only unconfined domain.  To be acceptable for
> > upstreaming, the unconfined role would have to unconditionally depend on
> > the unconfined domain module, which wouldn't allow you want.
> > 
> I don't understand your statement here.  You are saying that we can't
> upstream this because it is impossible, and yet it works for me.

I didn't mean that its technically impossible.  It breaks concepts in
refpolicy.  The concept of an unconfined domain resides in the
unconfined module.  Remove the unconfined module, then there is no
concept of unconfined domains; thus, there cannot be an unconfined user
domain.

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