On Fri, 15 Jun 2007, Seth Arnold wrote: > > How does inotify not work here? You are notified that the tree is > > moved, your daemon goes through and relabels things as needed. In the > > meantime, before the re-label happens, you might have the wrong label on > > things, but "somehow" SELinux already handles this, so I think you > > should be fine. > > SELinux does not relabel files when containing directories move, so it > is not a problem they've chosen to face.
It's a deliberate design choice, and follows traditional Unix security logic. DAC permissions don't change on every file in the subtree when you mv directories, either. - James -- James Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-security-module" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
