Re: [PATCH] misc apps and admin patches

Dominick Grift <[email protected]> writes:

> 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".

But also if this was added to support resolving dynamic users with
systemd then this is no longer needed because resolving of dynamic users
with systemd is no longer done with dbus. It is using varlink for that
now.

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