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On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 08:43, Chris PeBenito wrote: |
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> Announcing the new SELinux API |
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The transition to the new API has been completed. All of the old API |
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patches, policy, and other stuff has been removed, and the new patches |
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are in. I checked, and they should be on the mirrors. |
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Thanks to the people that helped test. |
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A few notes: |
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* Make sure you have the newest portage, as there is a fix for a |
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sandbox violation in 2.0.49-r15. |
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* Strict manifest checking for portage and secure filesystem |
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permissions have been enabled in the profile (FEATURES="strict |
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sfperms"). This is a hardened profile after all. :) |
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* Method worked hard on the new python-selinux. We've done a bunch of |
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testing on it, and it should work better than the old one. The new API |
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is simpler than the old one, which made things easier. |
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* The upcoming hardened-sources-2.4.22 will have the new API. |
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Hopefully that will be available soon. |
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* The ...security directories, which are located at the root of each |
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filesystem, can be removed. The old API used this directory to store the |
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file labels. The new API stores file labels in extended attributes, thus |
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...security is no longer used. |
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* The few daemon policies will be updated in the next couple days. |
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* app-admin/setools has a new version that has tools to work on the new |
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API. Portage will show it as a downgrade, because upstream they changed |
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the versioning scheme. Setools requires X, but not SELinux, so you can |
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use it on a regular workstation, to edit or analyze your policy. |
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Chris PeBenito |
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<pebenito@g.o> |
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Developer, SELinux |
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Hardened Gentoo Linux |
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Public Key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xE6AF9243 |
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Key fingerprint = B0E6 877A 883F A57A 8E6A CB00 BC8E E42D E6AF 9243 |
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