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SELinux Mailing ListRe: trusted vs untrusted packages
From: Jeff Johnson <n3npq_at_nc.rr.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 12:47:10 -0400
attached mail follows:
Russell Coker wrote:
>We have been having some IRC discussions about trusted RPMs. But please note The key phrase is "relies on some other program" and the type of relationship.
Clearly, a trusted executable cannot invoke an untrusted executable
without losing its
The answer is far less clear when the relationship is a dependency
between signed and
Which indicates to me that decicisions on whether to permit file exec
based on package
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