Re: [systemd-devel] [PATCH 2/2] main: added support for loading IMA custom policies

[Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 02/15/2012 05:55 PM, Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 2:26 PM, Roberto Sassu<roberto.sassu@xxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
> > On 02/15/2012 03:30 PM, Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri wrote:
> > > On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 11:23 AM, Roberto Sassu<roberto.sassu@xxxxxxxxx>    wrote:
> > > > The new function ima_setup() loads an IMA custom policy from a file in the
> > > > default location '/etc/sysconfig/ima-policy', if present, and writes it to
> > >
> > >
> > > isn't /etc/sysconfig too specific to Fedora?
> >
> > Hi Gustavo
> >
> > probably yes. I see the code in 'src/locale-setup.c' where the
> > the configuration directory depends on the target distribution.
> > I can implement something like that in my patch.
>
> Can't IMA be changed? Lennart seems to be pushing for distribution
> independent location files. If you can get IMA people to agree on
> something, just use this one instead.
>
> People that use IMA with systemd must use this location. Eventually
> this will happen with every configuration file we support.

The location of the policy file is not IMA dependent. I chose that
because it seemed to me the right place where to put this file.
So, i can easily modify the location to be distribution independent
but i don't known which directory would be appropriate.
Any proposal?

Regards

Roberto Sassu


> > > Also, I certainly have no such things in my system and see no point in
> > > calling ima_setup() on it. Or even compiling the source file in such
> > > case.
> >
> > Ok. I can enclose the code in ima-setup.c within an 'ifdef HAVE_IMA'
> > statement, as it happens for SELinux. However an issue is that there is no a specific package for IMA that can be checked to set the HAVE_IMA
> > definition to yes. Instead, the code can be enabled for example by
> > adding the parameter '--enable_ima' in the configure script.
>
> okay.
>
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