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

From: David Howells
Date: Thu Dec 13 2007 - 11:04:58 EST


Stephen Smalley <sds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
> Yes, we could easily make a simple program that just invokes a
> libselinux function that in turn grabs the proper context from some
> context configuration file under /etc/selinux/$SELINUXTYPE/contexts/ and
> outputs it. Dan can help with that.

That sounds nicely genericisable, perhaps even for any LSM.

/usr/bin/lsm-get-context cachefiles

It does have to be able to come up with different contexts for different
caches, but that can be controlled by changing the name supplied to it.

David
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