[refpolicy] [patch 2/2] namespace: new policy for namespace.init script

Daniel J Walsh dwalsh at redhat.com
Tue Mar 22 07:25:52 CDT 2011


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On 03/21/2011 10:44 AM, Christopher J. PeBenito wrote:
> On 03/03/11 05:44, Miroslav Grepl wrote:
>> http://mgrepl.fedorapeople.org/F15/apps_namespace_p2.patch
>>
>>     * adds polydomain attribute for login programs
> 
> I'm unsure why this is necessary.
> 
>>     * namespace.init runs restorecon
>>     * make ssh_home_t parent of polyinstantiated directory since
>> pam_namespace.so can be used for ssh
> 
> I don't think I follow.  Wouldn't the whole home directory be
> polyinstantiated, not just the .ssh dir?
> 
>>     * make user_tmp_t parent of polyinstantiated directory
> 
> This also seems odd.
> 
> 


Lets examine what is going on.  We want to allow the login programs to
populate a newly created directory from /etc/skel with proper labelling.
 If the admin puts /etc/skel/.ssh then this directory needs to be
created by namespace.init with ssh_home_t.



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