On 06/11/12 13:34, Stephen Smalley wrote: > On Mon, 2012-06-11 at 13:21 -0400, Eric Paris wrote: >> 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? > > Yes, you would need to do that if you want [gs]etsebool or semanage > boolean to support use of either name. > > I guess if you only want this support for policy modules, you could do > it entirely within libsepol and have it remap all aliases to their > primary names during policy link/expand. Also, if there are any local Boolean states in semanage (i.e. setsebool -P), they'd have to be migrated to the new symbol name too. -- 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.
