From: sven.vermeulen@siphos.be (Sven Vermeulen)
To: refpolicy@oss.tresys.com
Subject: [refpolicy] chsh (chfn_t) to access /etc/.pwd.lock (shadow_t) ?
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 18:52:45 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120328165245.GA3116@siphos.be> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F7223A3.9090409@redhat.com>
On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 04:31:31PM -0400, Daniel J Walsh wrote:
> Being able to write to etc_t is basically the same as being able to write to shadow_t, if /etc/passwd is labeled as etc_t.
How's that? The passwd file is labeled as etc_t, shadow is labeled as
shadow_t. And apparently, .pwd.lock is labeled as shadow_t as well
currently.
I'm pretty sure domains with write privileges to etc_t cannot write to
shadow_t...
Wkr,
Sven Vermeulen
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-28 16:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-27 19:24 [refpolicy] chsh (chfn_t) to access /etc/.pwd.lock (shadow_t) ? Sven Vermeulen
2012-03-27 20:31 ` Daniel J Walsh
2012-03-28 16:52 ` Sven Vermeulen [this message]
2012-03-28 17:15 ` Daniel J Walsh
2012-03-27 23:47 ` Russell Coker
2012-03-27 23:51 ` Russell Coker
2012-03-28 16:53 ` Sven Vermeulen
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