Re: The use of fscontext(iso9660_t)

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On 05/26/2014 02:18 AM, dE wrote:
> The obvious point of a type value for a certain FS is to restrict programs from doing things which are not allowed on that FS.
> 
> iso9660/UDF etc... is a RO FS. So writing on it should not be allowed. But I can write to files having this security context.
> 
> So what's the utility of, atleast iso9660_t?

Questions about Reference Policy should be asked on its list.

The purpose of iso9660_t is to provide a separate type for that media, not to reinforce the fact that the disks are read-only by policy.  By being a file type, certain domains can write to it since they can write to all file types.

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Chris PeBenito
Tresys Technology, LLC
www.tresys.com | oss.tresys.com
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