From: cpebenito@tresys.com (Christopher J. PeBenito)
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 12:11:11 -0400
Subject: [refpolicy] [PATCH 1/1] Allow userdomains to send syslog
	messages
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On 08/24/11 10:31, Dominick Grift wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 10:16:24AM -0400, Christopher J. PeBenito wrote:
>> On 08/24/11 09:51, Dominick Grift wrote:
>>> On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 09:41:10AM -0400, Christopher J. PeBenito wrote:
>>>> On 08/24/11 09:15, Dominick Grift wrote:
>>>>> On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 09:10:00AM -0400, Christopher J. PeBenito wrote:
>>>>>> On 08/23/11 06:57, Sven Vermeulen wrote:
>>>  ... snip ... 
>>>>> I do, the git-daemon run by users can be configured to use syslog. I allowed this by default in my git policy. Would you prefer a boolean "git_session_daemon_can_syslog" instead of allowing it by default?
>>>>
>>>> Thats a different domain.  I'm speaking of unpriv user domains user_t,
>>>> staff_t, etc.
>>>
>>> Until a git (session) daemon domain is implemented it runs in the unprivileged user domain.
>>
>> Ok.  I don't see this as a good reason to allow this.  A user running a
>> daemon should be logging to their home directory.
> 
> Agreed, but what if the administrator decides to run it as an unprivileged user and still wants to it to syslog.
> 
> It seems actually very sane to me. Running git-daemon as a system service requires inetd and it runs as root. Running inetd just to export a repository might be a bit much. If you can achieve what you want by running it as a unpriv user then why not.

If a user can run it as a user service w/o inetd, then why can't it run
as a system service w/o inetd?  Why cant you use start-stop-daemon or su
to run it with a different uid?

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Chris PeBenito
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