Re: Creating files from initrc_t
On 01/23/2012 04:48 PM, Moray Henderson wrote:
> From: Dominick Grift
> Sent: 23 January 2012 16:20
>
> On Mon, 2012-01-23 at 15:57 +0000, Moray Henderson wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> On CentOS 5.6, I have just noticed that if a process running under
> context
>> initrc_t creates a file or directory within a user's home directory,
> that
>> object gets user_home_dir_t.
>>
>> If an unconfined_t process does the same thing, they correctly get
>> user_home_t.
>>
>> Was this a bug or a feature?
>>
>> selinux-policy-2.4.6-300.el5_6.1
>> selinux-policy-targeted-2.4.6-300.el5_6.1
>>
>>
>> Moray.
>> "To err is human; to purr, feline."
> I guess that depends on how you look at it but compared to recent
> fedora
> policy i guess you could consider this to be a bug.
>
> This is supported in Fedora 16:
>
> # sesearch --allow -s initrc_t -t user_home_dir_t -T | grep user_home_t
> type_transition initrc_t user_home_dir_t : file user_home_t;
> type_transition initrc_t user_home_dir_t : dir user_home_t;
> type_transition initrc_t user_home_dir_t : lnk_file user_home_t;
> type_transition initrc_t user_home_dir_t : sock_file user_home_t;
> type_transition initrc_t user_home_dir_t : fifo_file user_home_t;
>
Thanks Dominick. I may still just work around it with restorecon for now, but if
necessary add those transitions to custom policy when I upgrade to CentOS 6.
What
kind is your application which is running as initrc_t? Maybe we
could also try to find a proper domain for this apps.
Moray.
“To err is human; to purr, feline.”
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