[Libguestfs] selinux question and answer

Eric Paris eparis at redhat.com
Thu Aug 13 13:53:47 UTC 2009


On Thu, 2009-08-13 at 10:22 +0100, Matthew Booth wrote:
> On 12/08/09 20:04, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 02:41:16PM -0400, Daniel J Walsh wrote:
> >> F11, F12, F..., RHEL6 ...
> >> setcon("unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0")
> >>
> >> RHEL5
> >> setcon("user_u:system_r:unconfined_t:s0")
> >>
> >> Would be valid, then you do not need to worry about executing a shell.
> >
> > Matt maybe we want this patch after all?
> >
> 
> Ok. We have a use case (/etc/mtab) which would be broken without this. 
> I'd go ahead and add it.
> 
> I'm inclined to try setcon to an ordered list of targets, stopping when 
> one works. So far, I think we've got:
> 
> 1. unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0
> 2. user_u:system_r:unconfined_t:s0

3. sysadm_u:sysadm_r:sysadm_t:s0

> 4. system_u:object_r:unconfined_t:s0

5. system_u:object_r:sysadm_t:s0

> sysadm_t was mentioned on our call yesterday as being the root login 
> domain for an MLS policy. What's a good set for MLS?






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