ReiserFS

Stephen Smalley sds at epoch.ncsc.mil
Wed Oct 6 17:27:59 UTC 2004


On Wed, 2004-09-29 at 15:12, Russell Coker wrote:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=134111
> 
> We are having some discussions of ReiserFS in the Red Hat bugzilla.
> 
> fs_use_xattr reiserfs system_u:object_r:fs_t;
> 
> It seems to me that the easiest solution is to remove the above line from 
> fs_use and add the following to genfs_contexts:
> 
> genfscon reiserfs /                     system_u:object_r:nfs_t
> 
> The reason for this hack is that we already have the policy for home 
> directories on NFS.  ReiserFS will never work for a root FS and isn't worth 
> any more effort than this hack.

This seems reasonable, at least until someone chooses to pursue the
necessary patches to the reiserfs xattr support to allow proper
interaction with SELinux.

-- 
Stephen Smalley <sds at epoch.ncsc.mil>
National Security Agency




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