I see. In that case I am not going to push this topic much further. Thanks for your assistance!
But wouldn't it be nice to have an allow mechanism in SELinux in which I could grant access based on it's existing access. What I want to achieve is to be able to add a rule like "If process can read etc_t, then it can also read etc_foo_t"
That would allow me to change context of individual files, and grant access to them by process who already have etc_t, and I wouldn't have to redefine almost the entire selinux context tree just to target a few individual files in /etc for my app.
T.
On 9/18/07, Daniel J Walsh dwalsh@redhat.com wrote:
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Torbjørn Lindahl wrote:
Good point. I probably can live with that.
Still I am not sure if I would like it to have full access to all files labelled etc_t . It would be nice to be able to single out only a few of them. Perhaps I should look at something other than the targeted policy.
On 9/17/07, Daniel J Walsh dwalsh@redhat.com wrote: Torbjørn Lindahl wrote:
Hello, I am writing an application that I want to limit using
selinux.
audit.log shows that it wants access to /etc/nsswitch.conf and
/etc/hosts -
which doesn't seem to unreasonable, however both these have types
etc_t
,
and allowing myapp_t to read etc_t would also give it access to for
example
/etc/passwd, which i do not want.
Do I have to invent a new type for these two files to be able to keep
my
application from the other etc_t files in /etc ?
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Yes you can, but the more different file_context that you have in /etc, the harder they will be to maintain.
Reading /etc/passwd is not as dangerous as being able to read /etc/shadow. So consider if this is really necessary.
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