On Mon, 2008-06-23 at 11:52 -0400, Stephen Smalley wrote: > On Mon, 2008-06-23 at 11:03 -0400, Christopher J. PeBenito wrote: > > I was going through and doing refactoring on the rbacsep with the goal > > of making the branch compilable again after doing all the derived type > > collapsing. I ran into a problem with type transition conflicts. There > > are several domains which have a type transition back to the caller > > domain, such as su, sudo, (session) dbus, ssh-agent. But now that the > > derived types are collapsed, we get conflicts such as: > > > > type_transition sudo_t shell_exec_t:process auditadm_t; > > type_transition sudo_t shell_exec_t:process secadm_t; > > type_transition sudo_t shell_exec_t:process staff_t; > > type_transition sudo_t shell_exec_t:process sysadm_t; > > type_transition sudo_t shell_exec_t:process user_t; > > > > It would seem that there are two solutions for this: > > > > 1. keep derived types for these affected domains > > 2. make these applications SELinux aware > > > > We can't collapse user domains because of their vast differences. > > I'd vote for (1). Otherwise the application is a trusted subject that > can transition to any user role/domain. Although in this case, hasn't sudo been made SELinux aware lately, including the ability to transition to other roles/domains? -- 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.
