Dear Folks,
On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 11:07:59PM -0500, Colin Walters wrote:
On Thu, 2005-01-20 at 14:47 +1100, Nick Urbanik wrote:
Dear Folks,
I have written a program that I use both run by Apache and by normal
users as a command line application.
When I changed the attribute of the program file to
httpd_sys_script_exec_t, It no longer had permission to write to the
console. What is the simplest way to handle this properly in SELinux?
The simplest solution is to simply make two copies of the program file
(by using e.g. cp), accessible by different names, with different
labels. So you'd have e.g. "/usr/bin/program.cgi" labeled as
httpd_sys_script_exec_t, and just "/usr/bin/program" labeled as
bin_t.
This raises a can of worms when maintaining the program, and the
question arises as to which is the "real one". I'm likely to forget
to update one or the other. "Which one do I enter into version
control?" is a question I would ask myself often.
Where are SELinux attributes stored? In the inode? If not, can hard
links be given different attributes?
The other solution is to define a new type, and grant both domains in
question access to it. This is a lot more complex; now you have to
consider potential information flow between the two domains which were
(presumably) separate before.
Well, that may be more managable in the long term. Can you suggest a
(relatively) simple way of doing that?
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