Developers of packages please pay attention to selinux labeling.
Jon Ciesla
limb at jcomserv.net
Tue Jul 13 12:58:04 UTC 2010
On 07/13/2010 07:55 AM, Daniel J Walsh wrote:
> If you are changing the locate of an executable or libraries the
> executables write to, please make sure SELinux labels are still
> consistant or contact the selinux developers for help. IF you update a
> package in a released version of Fedora and change the locations you
> MUST make sure it still works with selinux in enforcing mode.
>
> packagekit got released this to F13 and Rawhide this week and changed
> its location. packagekitd should be labeled rpm_exec_t, Since it moved
> it got the default label and is now running unconfined. This causes
> labels to get screwed up and lots of bugs are being reported on it. It
> gives SELinux a bad name. And it makes our user community mad. SELinux
> has been around a long time. Packages should be using it at least in
> testing. This is unacceptable.
>
>
Should we set the context manually, or will a restorecon in %post be
sufficient?
-J
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