dhclient and restorecon
Russell Coker
russell at coker.com.au
Sun Apr 3 06:00:34 UTC 2005
Why do we have restorecon being called from /sbin/dhclient-script?
In the latest strict policy in rawhide dhcpc_t is not permitted to execute
restorecon and a cursory glance at the targeted policy suggests that it can't
execute it there either.
dhcpc_t can only create files of types dhcpc_var_run_t, net_conf_t,
dhcpc_tmp_t, and dhcpc_state_t. Of those the type net_conf_t is specified by
the domain_auto_trans() rule for files created under /etc. I can't work out
how dhclient could create a file with the wrong type to the call to
restorecon seems redundant.
We don't want to use the policy domain_auto_trans(dhcpc_t, restorecon_exec_t,
restorecon_t) because restorecon_t is a highly privileged domain that we want
to limit access to (every domain that has such a transition should ideally
have it's main programs audited).
We don't want to use the policy can_exec(dhcpc_t, restorecon_exec_t) as that
will require allowing dhcpc_t to read the policy source which may be regarded
as secret (and therefore something that we don't want to give to a program
that is always running and has network access).
I think it would be best if dhclient-script did not call restorecon at all.
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