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Re: I think it is time for us to put the attributes back into policy file.

From: Daniel J Walsh <dwalsh_at_nospam>
Date: Thu Dec 04 2008 - 14:41:24 GMT
To: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>


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Stephen Smalley wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-12-03 at 18:57 -0500, Daniel J Walsh wrote:
>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> I am getting several complaints from people wanting to see these >> attributes. I would like to be able to list all "Domains" so you could >> choose which domains you want to put in permissive mode. >> >> I would like to see which attribute is giving a certain permission to a >> domain, without having to query the source. >> >> I am sure there are other uses.
>
> KaiGai changed the kernel policy format to retain type attributes in
> policy.24 (kernel 2.6.28 and later). So the information should be
> available - it is just a matter of teaching apol and friends to
> understand it. Of course, we still need the module format fixed for
> aliases, right?
>

Ok I did not know this, I guess I will start bothering Chris then. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
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