On 2/16/21 10:31 PM, Nicolas Iooss wrote: > On Sat, Feb 13, 2021 at 9:44 PM bauen1 <j2468h@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> It is quite useful even to non-privileged users and doesn't require any >> privileges to work, except for maybe -v. >> >> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Hettwer <j2468h@xxxxxxxxx> > > I agree with the reasoning, but changing the location of an existing > tool has the potential to break software which depends on the precise > location of sestatus (like > https://github.com/openstack/cookbook-openstack-dashboard/blob/86127240974041b456086b5fff6f8f525c9cf555/spec/spec_helper.rb#L82 > and https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/4a380771d3a18011af153e47e1d08a4a83feb452/lib/msf/core/post/linux/kernel.rb#L276 > and https://github.com/RedHatInsights/insights-core/blob/6fd58aeab11232a62ea97ba576220abca808c660/insights/specs/default.py#L815 > and ...). While I personally believe those shouldn't have been hard-coded in the first place, that is a good argument. Would it be acceptable, if a symlink is added to /usr/sbin/sestatus to link to /usr/bin/sestatus (or the other way) ? > On the other hand, if you have a clear use-case of non-privileged > users refusing to add /usr/sbin to their $PATH but willing to use > sestatus, and that supporting this use-case seems more important than > not breaking programs which rely on sestatus being in /usr/sbin, this > patch will be acceptable. Do you know of such a use-case? My use case is logging in as my normal user account and checking if SELinux is properly working. I'm not sure _why_ I should have to add sbin to $PATH to access a tool that works properly for non-privileged users, not that I couldn't do that. IIRC I did once (~2 years ago) have /sbin, /usr/sbin in $PATH, but then I end up with a lot of tools in tab-complete that I can't actually use (properly) and I don't like that. > (By the way, there is a misspelling in the patch subject: you wrote > "policycoretuils" instead of "policycoreutils") Thanks, I'll fix that if necessary. -- bauen1 https://dn42.bauen1.xyz/
