On 03/29/11 11:22, Eric Paris wrote: > On Tue, 2011-03-29 at 10:48 -0400, Christopher J. PeBenito wrote: >> On 03/28/11 14:00, Eric Paris wrote: >>> This patch adds support for using the last path component as part of the >>> information in making labeling decisions for new objects. A example >>> rule looks like so: >>> >>> type_transition unconfined_t etc_t:file system_conf_t eric; >>> >>> This rule says if unconfined_t creates a file in a directory labeled >>> etc_t and the last path component is "eric" (no globbing, no matching >>> magic, just exact strcmp) it should be labeled system_conf_t. >>> >>> The kernel and policy representation does not have support for such >>> rules in conditionals, and thus policy explicitly notes that fact if >>> such a rule is added to a conditional. >> >> Is there any plan for getting conditional support? > > I don't plan on doing it. I hate conditionals, wish they would die, and > suggest we should move to all modules instead. Thats not going to happen. If you can modify the policy (i.e. insert and remove modules), you can change it in any way. Whereas conditionals are well defined and being able to change a boolean can be constrained easily. -- Chris PeBenito Tresys Technology, LLC www.tresys.com | oss.tresys.com -- 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.
