--- Stephen Smalley <sds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 2007-08-14 at 08:53 -0700, Casey Schaufler wrote: > > --- David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > Casey Schaufler <casey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > > With Smack you can leave the label alone, raise CAP_MAC_OVERRIDE, > > > > do your business of setting the label correctly, and then drop > > > > the capability. No new hooks required. > > > > > > That sounds like a contradiction. How can you both leave it alone and > set > > > it? > > > > Whoops, sorry. You leave the process label alone and explicitly > > set the file label using the xattr interfaces. > > xattr interfaces don't help with the initial labeling of the file when > it is created. That's true. The deamon needs to run with an appropriate label. I don't believe that this is situation with a really simple solution because the activity being performed is unusual. > -- > Stephen Smalley > National Security Agency > > > -- > This message was distributed to subscribers of the selinux mailing list. > If you no longer wish to subscribe, send mail to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with > the words "unsubscribe selinux" without quotes as the message. > > > Casey Schaufler casey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
