Re: squid denial on F11 for var_run_t

[Stephen Smalley <sds tycho nsa gov>]

On Tue, 2009-06-16 at 08:49 -0400, Daniel J Walsh wrote:
> On 06/16/2009 08:32 AM, Daniel J Walsh wrote:
> > Unconfined processes tend to stay unconfined.  That is what uses expect,
> > telling them that they are executing an uconfined process that suddenly
> > becomes confined, seems wrong to them.  That being said, you can end up
> > with mislabeled files because of this.
> >
> > So
> >
> >
> > unconfined_t -> squid_exec_t -> unconfined_t
> >
> > But unconfined processes starting init scripts have a transition
> >
> > unconfined_t -> initrc_exec_t -> initrc_t -> squid_exec_t -> squid_t
> >
> > So any time you are using a confined process you should use the init
> > script to start them, otherwise you could get mislabeled files.
> 
> 
> I also just wrote a blog on this.
> 
> http://danwalsh.livejournal.com/29041.html

Hmm...when did this change?  It used to be the case that a domain
transition was also defined directly from unconfined_t to the daemon
domain when running the daemon binary, precisely because users and
scriptlets sometimes do that.

-- 
Stephen Smalley
National Security Agency