Re: Latest Diffs

[Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au>]

On Friday 17 November 2006 00:49, "Christopher J. PeBenito" 
<cpebenito@tresys.com> wrote:
> > Having a one-line .fc supposed conflict (it's not a conflict if the two
> > .fc files in question are never used at the same time) is much better
> > than massively hacking up an entire .te file.
>
> Any configuration of modules where all dependencies are met should be a
> valid configuration.  Having a file context conflict would make it an
> invalid configuration.

Can we add conflicts to modules?  Or just deal with this?

> > > >>>> squid wants to rw_tmpfs for diskd mode.
> > > >>>
> > >
> > > I have just recently received an AVC requiring it, which is why I put
> > > it back.
> >
> > Do you have any more information?  If the user is doing something odd
> > like using tmpfs for squid backing store then it's not something we want
> > to support in policy in that manner.
>
> I don't think I agree with that.  If it can be made to work with a
> squid_tmpfs_t, then why not support it?

Any directory on the system that contains application data could be replaced 
by a tmpfs filesystem and require a $1_tmpfs_t type for the least intelligent 
use.  As an example I once ran a MySQL database with a tmpfs for the database 
store.

The correct solution for such cases is to use either restorecon or a -o 
context= mount option to give it the expected type.  It's worked for me every 
time I've tried such things.

> > Maybe we could have restorecon run on the Squid spool directory to
> > cater for the case of using tmpfs for it if people want to do that.

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