Re: what is /sys/fs/selinux/policy_capabilities/redhat1

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On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 9:14 AM, Daniel J Walsh <dwalsh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 03/25/2016 08:31 AM, Stephen Smalley wrote:
>> On 03/25/2016 06:38 AM, Dominick Grift wrote:
>>>
>>> I noticed that object what is it for?
>>
>> Red Hat reserved a policy capability when they were testing
>> ptrace_child, which they ultimately discarded.  So it is presently
>> unused and maybe could be reclaimed?  I assume ptrace_child never made
>> it into any RHEL release?
>>
>> Oddly, I see that current Fedora policy still defines a ptrace_child
>> permission in class process, even though the kernel knows nothing about
>> it.
>
> We should probably drop it.

I just added a note to the BZ below to get the permission removed from
the Fedora policy.

 * https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=802072

As for the "redhat1" policycap and the kernel, we could remove it, but
I would just assume leave it there until we have a new policycap to
take its place.

-- 
paul moore
www.paul-moore.com
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