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Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 11:20:40 -0800 (PST)
From: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 08/28] SECURITY: Allow kernel services to override LSM settings for task actions [try #2]
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--- David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> wrote:

> Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com> wrote:
> 
> > You may need to have an application, say cachefileselinuxcontext, that will
> > read the current policy and spit out an appropriate value of "<whatever>",
> > but that can be separate and LSM specific without mucking up your basic
> > infrastructure applications.
> 
> What would I do with such a thing?  How would it get run?  Spat out to where?

Put it in /etc/init.d/cachefiles and run it at boot time. Put the
result into /etc/cachefiles.conf. Have cachefilesd read it and pass
it downward.



Casey Schaufler
casey@schaufler-ca.com
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