On Wednesday, March 21 2007 11:11:25 am Stephen Smalley wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 11:09 -0400, Paul Moore wrote:
> > On Wednesday, March 21 2007 10:59:10 am Loulwa Salem wrote:
> > > Paul Moore wrote:
> > > > I'm not sure this is a bug, unless of course we want sysadm_r to be
> > > > able to configure NetLabel.  Please try running netlabelctl as
> > > > secadm_r and report the results.
> > >
> > > secadm is able to execute netlabelctl. sysadm_r used to be able to run
> > > it as well. Why was it changed in the first place, and should sysadm_r
> > > be able to execute it since it is supposed to be a powerful role?
> >
> > I don't know why the behavior has changed, The only thing I can think of
> > that is related is the change made to allow netlabelctl to be executed by
> > init (patch snippet below).  However, from what I can remember the
> > init_daemon_domain() only added additional permissions ...
>
> If it adds a role_transition to system_r (likely, since it now thinks
> that netlabelctl is a daemon that needs to run in system_r), then that
> would explain it.

All righty, I'll have to take a closer look at the policy and see if there is 
a better interface or set of allow rules to use ... I'm so used to running 
netlabelctl manually via secadm_r I didn't notice this while testing the 
change below.

Unless Dan has any great insight into the best way to solve this I'll work on 
it after lunch.

> > Index: refpolicy/policy/modules/system/netlabel.te
> > ===================================================================
> > --- refpolicy.orig/policy/modules/system/netlabel.te
> > +++ refpolicy/policy/modules/system/netlabel.te
> > @@ -8,8 +8,7 @@ policy_module(netlabel,1.0.0)
> >
> >  type netlabel_mgmt_t;
> >  type netlabel_mgmt_exec_t;
> > -domain_type(netlabel_mgmt_t)
> > -domain_entry_file(netlabel_mgmt_t,netlabel_mgmt_exec_t)
> > +init_daemon_domain(netlabel_mgmt_t,netlabel_mgmt_exec_t)

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paul moore
linux security @ hp

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