Re: Selinux context type is same for root & normal user both

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



Hi Dominick / Ondrej ,

Thanks for valuable inputs , I will try to evaluate them .

Ashish

On Wed, Jan 6, 2021 at 9:30 PM Ondrej Mosnacek <omosnace@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jan 6, 2021 at 4:40 PM Dominick Grift
> <dominick.grift@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Ashish Mishra <ashishm@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> >
> > > Hi Dominick ,
> > >
> > > Will look at the re-labelling as you suggested.
> > > Is there any doc / blog / implementation etc to understand the
> > > sequence and commands to do this.
> > > To understand this step in a better way.
> > >
> > > We are working with such a setup freshly so any inputs / guidance will
> > > be helpful.
> > >
> > > Thanks for your time & inputs for this long thread .
> >
> > For docs i would suggest selinuxproject.org and
> > https://github.com/SELinuxProject/selinux-notebook/blob/main/src/toc.md
> >
> > For implementations i would suggest looking at how OpenWrt implemented
> > SELinux as this is a very simple implementation and the target seems to
> > be relatively similar to yours with the exception that OpenWrt does not
> > use a volatile root but instead uses a read-only squashfs and a overlay.
> >
> > You can also look at Fedora CoreOS for inspiration, and Googles SEAndroid.
> >
> > Implementing meaningful SELinux for exotic use cases like yours is not
> > trivial though IMHO. Using reference policy as a base-policy might not
> > be optimal for your use-case (to say the least) and it would probably be easier to create a
> > policy from scratch instead in the longer run.
>
> Well said. I'll just add that you'll at the very least need to remove
> the "genfscon" rule for "rootfs" from your policy and replace it with
> an appropriate "fs_use_xattr" one to be able to relabel the root
> filesystem. (Assuming it uses tmpfs under the hood (or supports
> xattrs), otherwise you may need to mount tmpfs somewhere and chroot
> into it at the beginning of your init script. Or something like
> that...)
>
> --
> Ondrej Mosnacek
> Software Engineer, Platform Security - SELinux kernel
> Red Hat, Inc.
>



[Index of Archives]     [Selinux Refpolicy]     [Linux SGX]     [Fedora Users]     [Fedora Desktop]     [Yosemite Photos]     [Yosemite Camping]     [Yosemite Campsites]     [KDE Users]     [Gnome Users]

  Powered by Linux