ReiserFS chicken and egg
Stephen Smalley
sds at tycho.nsa.gov
Wed Mar 29 12:43:04 UTC 2006
On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 06:27 -0600, Ian Pilcher wrote:
> Stephen Smalley wrote:
> > Sorry, reiserfs xattrs are known to be broken with SELinux at present,
> > because reiserfs doesn't yet implement the inode_init_security method
> > for labeling new inodes atomically at creation time. As a workaround,
> > mount it with a context= mount to override the use of xattrs.
>
> I tried context=system_u:object_r:file_t:s0 and got the same error. Is
> there something else I should be using?
By the "same error", you mean another avc denial for search access to
unlabeled_t:dir by mount_t? Did you get a SELinux: initialized (dev
xxx, type reiserfs), uses mountpoint labeling message
in /var/log/messages?
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Stephen Smalley
National Security Agency
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