Re: Fixing /.autorelabel

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On 06/30/2016 06:13 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> On Thu, 30.06.16 10:45, Simo Sorce (simo@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> 
>>>> Insert your idea here …
>>>
>>> Do it the same way `dnf system-upgrade` works. The requirements (having local filesystem read- and writable) are quite similar. Or the way PackageKit's system upgrade works…
>>> probably the same as (b) though…
>>
>> This s something I agree with, the system should have an autorelabel
>> target that is one-shot just like the system upgrades, and it should
>> bring up really the minimal system required to boot and mount the
>> filesystem to be relabeled and nothing else, it should work in
>> permissive mode and possibly with auditing enabled.
> 
> Yeah, I agree. My suggestion would be for SELinux to provide a systemd
> "Generator" tool (see systemd.generator(7) for details) that checks
> for the auorelabel flag file or kernel comand line option and then
> diverts the boot into a special relabel target that pulls in
> local-fs.target and very little else, then does its relabelling and
> reboots again. During all of this selinux should be in permissive
> mode, after all the labels are generally borked if you boot into this
> mode, and hence not suitable for making security decisions.
> 
> Pretty much all of that should live in some selinux package I figure.
> 

I like the idea that the relabeling will be isolated in a special
target. And we've recently moved fedora-selinux.service to
policycoreutils so it could live there.

However, it won't probably fix the following problems:

(2) when a generator file was mislabeled it could not be run by systemd
as systemd can't read fedora-relabel unit file now

Unless we want to loosen the policy to allow systemd read file with any
file context, it will be up to a administrator to set a permissive mode
via the kernel command line


(5) the relabeling service will still need to have StandardInput=tty to
provide a possibility to relabel a system manually


Petr
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