Using dyntransition to reduce privileges for Web application

[Scott Gifford]

On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 9:00 AM, Daniel J Walsh <dwalsh at redhat.com> wrote:

> On 02/21/2011 10:19 PM, Scott Gifford wrote:
>
[ ... ]

>  > Yeah, true, but I'm not sure how to cause them to have no category
> > either, apart from using setxattr.
> >
> I think if you do the file context correctly you can run restorecon -F
> to fix the label.  If your CGI were in Code or python, you could use
> setfscreatecon, to set the label automatically.
>

My code is in Perl, so I just printed the NULL-terminated context name to:

/proc/$$/attr/fscreate


 It required that I give the process context setfscreate permission, like
this:

allow httpd_ppi_portal_app_t self:process setfscreate;


Now it is working great, thanks!

-----Scott.
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