On Wed, 2020-11-18 at 15:28 -0700, Jerry Snitselaar wrote:
> Hi Debora,
> 
> This came up in a coverity scan, so I thought I'd send a patch
> for it. One thing that people should note is that with tcsd now
> calling setgid, for systems using selinux there needs to be a
> capability added for tcsd to allow setgid. I'm working to get
> that into the upstream selinux-policy-contrib project.
> 
> Without this change tcsd will run on an selinux enforcing system,
> but the group will still be root. With this change, and without
> an updated selinux policy tcsd will exit when the setgid fails
> to change the group to tss.
> 
> Regards,
> Jerry
> 
> 

Thank you, Jerry.

Are you suggesting that I go ahead and accept the patch to upstream
now?  Or wait until the selinux policy is updated?  

Thanks,
Debbie



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