Re: Desktop apps interoperability

On Mon, 2005-03-28 at 20:54 +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> ... there's nothing special needed? ...
>
> oh - yes, i get it. create filetype.
> nothing to do with file_type_auto_trans itself.

file_type_auto_trans() is a macro that expands to file_type_trans() and a type_transition rule specifying the default type for the new files. file_type_trans() is a macro that expands to the set of allow rules needed for the domain to create the file (including appropriate permissions to the parent directory as well as to the file). The allow rules are always needed for such a file creation to occur. The type_transition rule specifies a default in the absence of anything specified by the program via setfscreatecon(3). The ability to use setfscreatecon(3) does require that the domain have one additional permission, setfscreate, but the permission checks governing the actual file creation are the same.

This is a general principle in SELinux; the same set of permission checks are applied for operations regardless of whether the type was application-specified or a default value, so that you can always determine what is permissible via the allow rules. The same is true of exec transitions for processes. The set of permission checks doesn't change; only the types involved change.  

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Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
National Security Agency


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