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On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 07:45, Petre Rodan wrote: |
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> one thing about |
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> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/hardened/selinux/selinux-quickstart.xml: |
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> you do warn people that there is a bug with grub, but there are a few |
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> implications with that which are not quite obvious: |
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> if the user blindly removes the /boot/boot symlink and modifies |
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> grub.conf there is the possibility that on next reboot he'll see 'grub |
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> error 15' |
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> he sould have re-installed grub (I think grub still expects to find |
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> the stages in (hd0)/boot/grub/stageX (instead of (hd0)/grub/stageX) |
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> and hence the error) |
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Yes, the grub bug is really nasty and irritating. I'll add to the doc |
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to reinstall grub. |
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> and I use monolithic kernels, so tweaking mkinitrd was also needed |
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In what way? If you run 'make initrd' from the policy directory, it |
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doesn't try to install any modules. |
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> BTW, |
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> this idea of having the policy in two places (in |
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> /etc/security/selinux/.. and inside initrd.gz) is temporary, right? =) |
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Well the old way of having the kernel read the policy was rejected from |
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the 2.6 kernel for several reasons. So the initrd (or initramfs) is |
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currently the only way to load the policy before running init. The |
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policy needs to be loaded before init, so init can transition to the |
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right domain. There are some ugly hacks and games that RedHat is |
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trying, to skip the initrd. But they are ugly :\ So right now the |
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initrd is just a fact of life. |
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Chris PeBenito |
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Developer, SELinux |
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