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Re: named policy patch

From: Russell Coker <russell_at_coker.com.au>
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 23:56:43 +1000


On Tuesday 12 April 2005 23:38, Daniel J Walsh <dwalsh@redhat.com> wrote:
> >+/usr/sbin/named-checkconf -- system_u:object_r:named_checkconf_exec_t
>
> Why not just label chckconf as named_exec_t?

We don't want a transition from sysadm_t when the administrator runs it. named_t does not have access to sysadm_tty_device_t or sysadm_devpts_t, I believe that if the startup fails then the administrator will want to run named-checkconf as part of a debugging process and will therefore need to have it running in sysadm_t to display the results.

It's exactly the same as the situation with ntpdate.

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