From: sven.vermeulen@siphos.be (Sven Vermeulen)
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2013 20:33:54 +0100
Subject: [refpolicy] [PATCH/RFC] Reintroduce httpd_user_content_type and
 httpd_user_script_exec_type attributes
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References: <20130211190233.GA11417@siphos.be> <1360611019.2559.22.camel@d30>
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On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 08:30:19PM +0100, Dominick Grift wrote:
> > The httpd_user_content_type and httpd_user_script_exec_type attributes were
> > erroneously removed a while ago, but while trying to reintroduce them I did
> > notice that they were removed because there was no way for users to actually
> > use them (or I'm completely misreading the policy code).
> 
> I still do not understand the purpose of this. Is there some actual need
> for this? I deprecated the interface because it was unused and i could
> not see a convincing need for it to exist.
> 
> Can you enlighten me? What issue are you facing? Who, other than the
> user needs to be able to manage user content/script dirs, files and
> symlinks?

I'll have to ask Christopher, I made this patch as a result of our previous
thread on this matter (where I initially changed a deprecated function to
reflect the removal of these types):

http://oss.tresys.com/pipermail/refpolicy/2013-January/006255.html

Wkr,
	Sven Vermeulen