talking to mcstrans in MLS enforcing on rhel6 beta

Daniel J Walsh dwalsh at redhat.com
Tue May 11 18:36:40 UTC 2010


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On 05/11/2010 12:10 PM, Xavier Toth wrote:
> I'm a bit confused about something. mcstransd creates a socket and
> through a transition rule it get labeled setrans_var_run_t (this is
> also the type used with mls_trusted_object in the setrans policy)
> however when other apps try and connect to it the target context type
> is setrans_t which of course isn't trusted so no one can connect. As
> an experiment I added setrans_t as a mls trusted object and then other
> apps could connect. Not sure where the target context comes from on
> connectto because the socket file is label setrans_var_run_t on the
> disk. Something needs fixing just not sure what. Doesn't seem right to
> add 'mls_trusted_object(setrans_t)'.
> 
> Ted
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Since connectto has a constraint on it, I think we need to add this also?
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