Re: [PATCH] misc apps and admin patches

Dominick Grift <[email protected]>
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.selinux-refpolicy
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Russell Coker <[email protected]> writes:

> On Thursday, 21 January 2021 12:28:49 AM AEDT Dominick Grift wrote:
>> > optional_policy(`
>> > +       init_dbus_chat(sysadm_t)
>> 
>> Can you explain why you added this?
>
> Apart from the obvious that some program wanted it, no.  I'll remove that bit 
> and add it again with a note if it's necessary.  Did you like the rest of that 
> patch?

Yes and thats my beef with this. "some program wanted it". sysadm_t is a
shell domain. Any programs that need this should, in my view, ideally be
targeted. If you dont want that then use unconfined_t instead and be
done.

I dont want sysadm_t to become a "drunken unconfined_t".

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