[refpolicy] xconsole and related stuff patch

[Russell Coker]

On Wed, 9 Nov 2011, "Christopher J. PeBenito" <cpebenito at tresys.com> wrote:
> On 11/07/11 07:46, Russell Coker wrote:
> > The attached patch moves the xconsole policy to logging.pp from the
> > xserver policy.  It's more about logging than the X server and there are
> > a lot of systems which have syslogd configured to write to /dev/xconsole
> > but that have no X server installed.
> 
> I'm afraid I don't agree; its still associated with display on X, even
> without a functioning X server.

Or any other process running as root or the adm group that is configured to 
read it.

> When you say that there are lot of
> systems with syslogd using xconsole, are you referring to Debian systems? 

Yes, syslogd is configured to write to it regardless of whether X is 
installed.

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