Tmpfs
Russell Coker
russell at coker.com.au
Tue Jul 6 01:53:16 UTC 2004
On Tue, 6 Jul 2004 11:50, Ivan Gyurdiev <ivg2 at cornell.edu> wrote:
> What's the situation with tmpfs? I have /tmp on tmpfs and I get lots of
> denials. Tmpfs doesn't seem to support xattrs, however..
>
> SELinux: initialized (dev tmpfs, type tmpfs), uses transition SIDs
> SELinux: initialized (dev tmpfs, type tmpfs), uses transition SIDs
> SELinux: initialized (dev tmpfs, type tmpfs), uses transition SIDs
>
> Is /tmp on tmpfs something that should work, or is this not supported?
> What about /dev on tmpfs (or /udev)?
Making /dev on tmpfs should work. /tmp on tmpfs will not work properly
because it's labelled as tmpfs_t (which is also used for SysV shared memory).
See the following URL for more discussion of this issue:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=selinux&m=104438419029394&w=2
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