On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 03:26:43PM -0400, Stephen Smalley wrote:
On Tue, 2004-08-31 at 15:18, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> i think we need the input of more experienced people than us to
> say why these associate things are needed.
It provides control over the set of files that can live in a given
filesystem, based on their security types (equivalence classes). As you
are now creating device types in a different filesystem type, further
allow rules are needed to allow that association.
> a correct implementation of the
> hacked-together-relaxed-fscontext-hooks.c-patch results in an atomic
> operation (mount with a new context which would otherwise need to be
> achieved with two commands: mount followed by restorecon)
The more important issue is that fscontext= lets you set the superblock
security context, not just the root directory context. restorecon can't
do that.
ah.
thanks for clarifying, steven.
l.