Re: [PATCH 1/1] refpolicy: Do not want to transition to sysadm_t when upstart runs a shell

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On Thu, 2008-03-06 at 16:45 -0500, Daniel J Walsh wrote:
> Stephen Smalley wrote:
> > On Thu, 2008-03-06 at 16:11 -0500, James Carter wrote:
> >> Upstart spawns a shell during boot and, without this patch, it will
> >> transition to the sysadm_t domain, but remain in the system_r role.
> >> Services started by that shell will fail to start, even in permissive
> >> mode, if system_u:system_r:sysadm_someservice_t is an invalid context.
> >> We really don't want to be starting services from the sysadm_t domain
> >> during boot.
> > 
> So it should probably transition to initrc_t, so apps started this way
> would have a chance of transitioning properly.

No, the shell will execute /etc/rc.d/rc to start processing the init
scripts, and thats when it'll transition to initrc_t.  If we do it on
shell execution, it may cause problems for things executed directly out
of init, like getty.

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Chris PeBenito
Tresys Technology, LLC
(410) 290-1411 x150


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