Re: [PATCH 08/28] SECURITY: Allow kernel services to override LSMsettings for task actions [try #2]

[Stephen Smalley]

On Wed, 2007-12-12 at 11:20 -0800, Casey Schaufler wrote:
> --- David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Casey Schaufler <casey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > > You may need to have an application, say cachefileselinuxcontext, that will
> > > read the current policy and spit out an appropriate value of "<whatever>",
> > > but that can be separate and LSM specific without mucking up your basic
> > > infrastructure applications.
> > 
> > What would I do with such a thing?  How would it get run?  Spat out to where?
> 
> Put it in /etc/init.d/cachefiles and run it at boot time. Put the
> result into /etc/cachefiles.conf. Have cachefilesd read it and pass
> it downward.

More likely, run it at build time in your .spec file to generate
cachefiles.conf, then run it again maybe upon a policy update or if the
user selects a different policy.

-- 
Stephen Smalley
National Security Agency

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