Re: [PATCH v2 0/1] supporting RBACSEP in genhomedircon

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On 10/06/2016 01:09 PM, Gary Tierney wrote:
> New version of the previous genhomedircon-rbacsep patch with some changes.  A
> bit of a delay as I had to get in a libsepol/cil fix which was blocking this.
> 
> 1. Remove semanage.conf option
> 2. Drop unrelated change
> 3. Adds a new homedir_role member to the genhomedircon_user struct.
> 4. Sets homedir_role if the SELinux users prefix is a valid role for that user.
> 5. Replaces all roles with homedir_role in context specifications if homedir_role is set.
> 
> One issue that came up when writing these patches is that genhomedircon
> squashes logging [1] for some reason, which can result in no warning / info
> messages and an empty file_contexts.homedirs file if policy has been
> incorrectly configured.  Can we get rid of this behavior or add a flag to
> conditionally enable logging?
> 

If we do that then i suspect that we can also use that for the messages
where an seuser id cannot be found (e.g. that system_u, and gdm.id issue)

> Dominick Grift helpfully created some test images that demo DSSP policy working
> with both RBACSEP and non-RBACEP:
> https://tfirg.asu.su/2016/10/03/garys-patches/
> 
> There are still some rough edges though, for example in policy you can't write a
> statement like: (userprefix id role) and put it in an abstract namespace,
> since it is interpreted as a literal:
> 
> (block usersubj
>     (blockabstract usersubj)
>     (user id)
>     (role role)
>     (userrole id role)
>     (userprefix id role))
> 
> (block wheel
>     (blockinherit usersubj))
> 
> Which leaves us with a (userid, prefix) tuple of (wheel.id, role) [wheel.id
> might even just be id here, haven't checked if users are expanded or also taken
> as literals].
> 
> Though this is something I can look at later if all is well here.
> 
> [1] https://github.com/SELinuxProject/selinux/blob/master/libsemanage/src/genhomedircon.c#L568-L572
> 
> Gary Tierney (1):
>   genhomedircon: use userprefix as the role for homedir content
> 
>  libsemanage/src/genhomedircon.c | 38 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
>  1 file changed, 35 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 


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