Re: portcon in a policy module?

[Stephen Smalley <sds tycho nsa gov>]

On Mon, 2007-04-30 at 10:47 -0400, rob myers wrote:
> hello-
> 
> i tried to assign a port type in a policy module like so:
> 
> portcon tcp 1521 system_u:object_r:oracle_port_t:s0;
> 
> which fails unless i rebuild as a monolithic policy.  should this fail
> or have i got something wrong?
> 
> i have found that using "semanage port -a -t oracle_port_t -p tcp 1521"
> in the rpm post install script works.  
> 
> what is the proper way to assign a port in a policy module?
> 
> thanks for any clues!

semanage is the right approach for object contexts - they aren't
supported in policy modules (yet), and even if they were, there would be
the potential for ordering/overriding issues there.

-- 
Stephen Smalley
National Security Agency