selinux policy for encrypted files

Roberto Sassu roberto.sassu at polito.it
Thu Dec 9 10:48:17 UTC 2010


Hi all

i want to write a policy for encrypted files.
In order to do this i created some new types which have the
name of the correspondent type used for non encrypted files,
with the prefix 'encrypted_'.
Then i need to define the policy for applications that need to
use these new types which is very similar to this defined
for original types, except that i want to take rules only
for the 'dir' and 'file' class.
What this the best way to define the policy? Do i have
to duplicate all required interfaces/templates or can i reuse
the existent code, for instance by adding a new parameter?

I will show an example of what i'm trying to define.

New type: encrypted_etc_t;

Example interface:

interface(`files_list_etc',`
	gen_require(`
		type etc_t;
	')

	allow $1 etc_t:dir list_dir_perms;
')


Added interface:

interface(`files_list_encrypted_etc',`
	gen_require(`
		type encrypted_etc_t;
	')

	allow $1 encrypted_etc_t:dir list_dir_perms;
')


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