cups, /dev/fd

Stephen Smalley sds at epoch.ncsc.mil
Fri Sep 17 14:32:52 UTC 2004


On Fri, 2004-09-17 at 10:30, Tom London wrote:
> Then should /dev/fd (the link) be unlabeled, defaulting
> to the general DAC?  Or labeled, say, self_fd_t,
> with a general rule allowing accesses to it?
> 
> Could do the same for /dev/stdin, /dev/stdout, and
> /dev/stderr.

I don't see why you wouldn't just generally give search to device_t:dir
for /dev and read to device_t:lnk_file for
/dev/{fd,stdin,stdout,stderr}.  Maintaining individual types on those
symlinks seems overkill.  BTW, unlabeled doesn't default to general DAC,
it is inaccessible to most domains.

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Stephen Smalley <sds at epoch.ncsc.mil>
National Security Agency




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