Re: Creating files from initrc_t

[Miroslav Grepl <mgrepl@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 01/23/2012 04:48 PM, Moray Henderson wrote:
> > From: Dominick Grift
> > Sent: 23 January 2012 16:20
> >
> > On Mon, 2012-01-23 at 15:57 +0000, Moray Henderson wrote:
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > On CentOS 5.6, I have just noticed that if a process running under
> > context
> > > initrc_t creates a file or directory within a user's home directory,
> > that
> > > object gets user_home_dir_t.
> > >
> > > If an unconfined_t process does the same thing, they correctly get
> > > user_home_t.
> > >
> > > Was this a bug or a feature?
> > >
> > > selinux-policy-2.4.6-300.el5_6.1
> > > selinux-policy-targeted-2.4.6-300.el5_6.1
> > >
> > >
> > > Moray.
> > > "To err is human; to purr, feline."
> > I guess that depends on how you look at it but compared to recent
> > fedora
> > policy i guess you could consider this to be a bug.
> >
> > This is supported in Fedora 16:
> >
> > # sesearch --allow -s initrc_t -t user_home_dir_t -T | grep user_home_t
> >     type_transition initrc_t user_home_dir_t : file user_home_t;
> >     type_transition initrc_t user_home_dir_t : dir user_home_t;
> >     type_transition initrc_t user_home_dir_t : lnk_file user_home_t;
> >     type_transition initrc_t user_home_dir_t : sock_file user_home_t;
> >     type_transition initrc_t user_home_dir_t : fifo_file user_home_t;
> Thanks Dominick.  I may still just work around it with restorecon for now, but if necessary add those transitions to custom policy when I upgrade to CentOS 6.
What kind is your application which is running as initrc_t? Maybe we 
could also try to find a proper domain for this apps.
> Moray.
> “To err is human; to purr, feline.”
>
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