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From: Julius Loman <lomo@×××××××.net>
To: gentoo-hardened@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-hardened] udev problem
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 12:30:55
Message-Id: 43CCE2A8.5030906@kyberia.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-hardened] udev problem by Mivz
1 Mivz wrote:
2 > Hello,
3 >
4 > In the SELinux handbook is noted that I should use use UDEV management
5 > of /dev and no tar bal in /etc/conf.d/rc:
6 >
7 > RC_DEVICES="udev"
8 > RC_DEVICE_TARBALL="no"
9 >
10 > But if configure my /dev like this, I loose al my security labels and
11 > they always return to the standart device_t, which causes my system to
12 > hang in enforcement mode.
13 > I played around with them and noted that when I use static management
14 > and do store /dev to a tarball it does work correct, but then other
15 > programs start to misbehave, even when not in enforcement mode. For
16 > exampke konsole hangs on startup. kwifimanager can't find su to edit
17 > it's settings. If I return to udev management and no tarball, everything
18 > works fine again, except for the security labels.
19 > Does anyone no why udev does not work properly with securitylabels?
20 > Should I file a bug report on this?
21 Hello
22
23 It looks like your static dev files (those are on root partition) are not
24 labeled. Try to remount the dev part of the root partition on /dev and do the
25 relabeling.
26
27 That worked for me at least.
28
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31 [ Julius Loman ][ lomo@×××××××.net ][ http://lomo.kyberia.net ][ icq:35732873 ]
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Re: [gentoo-hardened] udev problem Mivz <mivz@×××××××××××××.net>