Re: sddm issue and patch not for inclusion

On Thursday, 28 January 2021 10:36:19 PM AEDT Dominick Grift wrote:
> >> In Debian/Unstable (which will soon be frozen and become the next stable
> >> release) the sddm X login program (the one that's generally recommended
> >> and specifically known to generally work well with SE Linux) uses PAM to
> >> start a session for the "greeter" (the program that asks for a password
> >> before a new session is started).
> >> 
> >> With the policy currently in Debian that means the sddm user matches
> >> "__default__" and gets unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t, not what
> >> is desirable for a program that takes input from unauthenticated users.
> >> 
> >> role xdm_r;
> >> role xdm_r types xdm_t;
> >> allow system_r xdm_r;
> >> allow xdm_t xdm_tmpfs_t:file execmod;
> > 
> > that looks like a bug or at least bad code

That's a design decision.  One could make a convincing argument that it's a 
good decision.

> >> corecmd_bin_entry_type(xdm_t)
> 
> Also wondering what or which bin_t file or files this applies to and if
> it instead is not possible to give these a private type

/usr/bin/sddm-greeter.  Yes I can give it a private type, might be a good idea 
in any case.

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