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From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
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To: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
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       Karl MacMillan <kmacmill@redhat.com>, viro@ftp.linux.org.uk,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 08/28] SECURITY: Allow kernel services to override LSM settings for task actions [try #2]
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 16:03:47 +0000
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Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> wrote:

> 
> 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.

That sounds nicely genericisable, perhaps even for any LSM.

	/usr/bin/lsm-get-context cachefiles

It does have to be able to come up with different contexts for different
caches, but that can be controlled by changing the name supplied to it.

David
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