Re: Sepcut Relabel problem

On Thu, 8 Apr 2004 02:17, David Caplan <dac@tresys.com> wrote:
> The "rm" line appears to have been added relatively recently to the
> relabel target.  My guess is that the rationale was that many of the
> files in /tmp were no longer labeled correctly after a relabel because
> most of them would have been created via a file transition rule (and
> thus a relabel would change them all to incorrect/default labels, most
> likely denying access to the files anyway if the system were in
> enforcing mode).

Your guess is correct. Correctly labelling all the files in /tmp is virtually impossible. Leaving existing entries in /tmp as file_t does not work as many programs use fixed file names (of course that's usually a bad idea, but that's another discussion) and won't work if the file names exist and can't be unlinked.

There are two solutions to this problem, one is to have your system clean /tmp on reboot (as is done in Debian). The other is to have a relabel clean out /tmp.

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