VMWare config issue (Newbie)

Earl unorlist at yahoo.com
Mon Jun 28 16:10:49 UTC 2004


Removed vmware-config.pl from:
/etc/security/selinux/src/policy/file_contexts/program/vmware.fc
and relabeled.  vmware-config.pl works.

Is anyone aware of a SELinux + VMWare "cookbook" to
implement something like NetTop?

Earl


--- Russell Coker <russell at coker.com.au> wrote:
> On Sat, 26 Jun 2004 05:42, Stephen Smalley
> <sds at epoch.ncsc.mil> wrote:
> > But I'm not clear that vmware-config.pl should be
> labeled vmware_exec_t
> > at all (vs. bin_t).  What is the advantage of
> running the configuration
> > script in vmware_t vs. sysadm_t?  There are no
> type transition rules for
> > vmware_t (except for /var/run files), so it
> doesn't help keep the
> > configuration in the right type.
> 
> Yes, vmware-config.pl should be labelled as bin_t
> (IE removed from vmware.fc).
> 
> But that's a small issue compared to all the other
> vmware issues.  We want to 
> have support for multiple domains for vmware for
> different user roles, and 
> the policy should be easily configurable for one
> user to be able to launch 
> vmware in different domains for NetTop type stuff.
> 
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