On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 12:51 PM, Stephen Smalley <sds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, 2012-06-11 at 12:12 -0400, Daniel J Walsh wrote: >> We have started pushing a boolean change into Fedora 18. >> >> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/SELinuxBooleansRename >> >> The problem we are seeing is that boolean names used within an interface are >> causing the install to fail on rebuild of policy. >> >> IE If I installed a custom policy with a boolean used in it, and the boolean >> changed then the module will blow up the policy compile. >> >> >> interface(`kerberos_manage_host_rcache',` >> gen_require(` >> type krb5_host_rcache_t; >> ') >> >> ... >> >> tunable_policy(`allow_kerberos',` >> allow $1 self:process setfscreate; >> ... >> ') >> >> ... >> ') >> >> And change the allow_kerberos to kerberos_enabled. >> >> One idea would be to pull the translations into the semanage, or would I need >> to do this at a lower level. Or are we stuck with these bad names forever... > > Adding boolean aliases to the policy language, including kernel support, > seems like the best route if you truly want to do this. What does 'including kernel support' mean? Expose both names in the booleans/ directory? -- 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.
