Re: Desktop apps interoperability

On Sun, 2005-03-27 at 23:57 -0500, Ivan Gyurdiev wrote:
> Fundamentally, what I want to know is:
>
> 1) Do desktop apps need to be confined? Is it a good idea to confine
> them?

Yes.

> 2) If so, a shared data type is needed for interoperability.
> Is ROLE_home_t acceptable for that purpose.

A shared data type may be fine, but ROLE_home_t isn't what you want to use. And yes, separating settings from data is useful, and yes, littering user's top-level home directories with application settings considered harmful.

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


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