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Re: booting in enforcing mode

From: Rogelio Serrano <rogelio_at_smsglobal.net>
Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2004 21:41:40 +0800


On 2004-04-11 18:23:07 +0800 Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au> wrote:

> On Sun, 11 Apr 2004 00:53, Rogelio Serrano
> <rogelio@smsglobal.net> wrote:

>> I see. I think i have to remove some of those that i added. 
>> the
>> hotplug scripts are the noisiest. i will fix /bin/login first.
>> its the login fom util-linux 2.12 and im not using PAM. i need

>
> Not using PAM is a problem. I have written policy to prevent
> /bin/login from
> accessing /etc/shadow directly. When using PAM the helper
> program
> unix_chkpwd is granted read access to /etc/shadow and
> /bin/login will spawn
> unic_chkpwd to check the password.
>
> When not using PAM you would have to put the following in
> login.te:
> allow $1_login_t shadow_t:file { getattr read };
>
> Then in the domain declaration change auth_chkpwd to auth.
>
>> to label the tty properly. i can login but not into

>
> That's another thing, if you use a non-PAM login program then
> you have to
> patch it to relabel the tty.
>
> I think that an option to consider is using pam-login. It's
> source code is
> apparently very clean, partly because it's only designed to
> use PAM and has
> no options for doing other things.
>
>> /User/Admin. login drops me into / then i can just "cd" and im
>> in sysadm_home_dir. all home directories are in /Users and
>> admins home dir is /Users/Admin alongside the other users. The
>> context for /Users is system_u:object_r:file_t. Is that ok?
>> Shouldnt it be root_t? Or should i create a totally new type.

>
> Best thing to do would be sed -e s/^\/home\//\/Users\// on the
> file_contexts
> file.
>

Im not using shadow too. i fixed up the login though. it behaves like pam login now.
just to clarify im not using a standard distro. im using an lfs knock off.

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Received on Sun 11 Apr 2004 - 09:42:06 EDT
 

Date Posted: Jan 15, 2009 | Last Modified: Jan 15, 2009 | Last Reviewed: Jan 15, 2009

 
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