On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 03:26:43PM -0400, Stephen Smalley wrote: > On Tue, 2004-08-31 at 15:18, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > > i think we need the input of more experienced people than us to > > say why these associate things are needed. > > It provides control over the set of files that can live in a given > filesystem, based on their security types (equivalence classes). As you > are now creating device types in a different filesystem type, further > allow rules are needed to allow that association. > > > a correct implementation of the > > hacked-together-relaxed-fscontext-hooks.c-patch results in an atomic > > operation (mount with a new context which would otherwise need to be > > achieved with two commands: mount followed by restorecon) > > The more important issue is that fscontext= lets you set the superblock > security context, not just the root directory context. restorecon can't > do that. ah. thanks for clarifying, steven. l.
