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Re: I would like to change the behavior of MCS label creations in directory.

From: Guido Trentalancia <guido_at_nospam>
Date: Thu Sep 22 2011 - 20:13:30 GMT
To: Daniel J Walsh <dwalsh@redhat.com>

On Thu, 2011-09-22 at 15:53 -0400, Daniel J Walsh wrote:
> Currently if I create a directory labeled
>
> etc_t:s0:c1
>
> And with a process running as unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 create a
> file within the directory, the file gets created with the label
> etc_t:s0. I would like to change the behavior to creating the file
> as etc_t:s0:c1.
>
> That way an administrator could modify files within a sandbox and have
> the files be labeled correctly.
>
> I believe this behavior differs from MLS but believe this would be
> what the admin expects.
>
> Is changing this a kernel or policy issue?

Should be a kernel issue. Sounds interesting.

Regards,

Guido

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