Subject: Re: [PATCH 08/28] SECURITY: Allow kernel services to override LSM
	settings for task actions [try #2]
From: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
To: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
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On Wed, 2007-12-12 at 22:55 +0000, David Howells wrote:
> Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> wrote:
> 
> > More likely, run it at build time in your .spec file to generate
> > cachefiles.conf,
> 
> I don't think sticking it in cachefiles.conf is a good idea necessarily.
> That has to be an administrator modifiable file.  Is there a program I could
> make cachefiles run directly and capture the output of that could give me the
> info I want?

Yes, we could easily make a simple program that just invokes a
libselinux function that in turn grabs the proper context from some
context configuration file under /etc/selinux/$SELINUXTYPE/contexts/ and
outputs it.  Dan can help with that.

> > then run it again maybe upon a policy update or if the user selects a
> > different policy.
> 
> How do I do that?

-- 
Stephen Smalley
National Security Agency

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