Re: [PATCH] remove sys_security

[Stephen C. Tweedie]

Hi,

On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 12:14:16AM +0200, Russell Coker wrote:
 
> OK, how do you go about supplying extra data to a file open than to modify the 
> open system call?
> 
> If for example I want to create a file of context 
> "system_u:object_r:fingerd_log_t" under /var/log (instead of taking the 
> context from that of the /var/log directory "system_u:object_r:var_log_t") 
> then how would I go about doing it other than through a modified open system 
> call?

With a "setesid(2)" syscall to set the effective sid.  

A new file already inherits a ton of context, from the current uid/gid
to the umask.  Those are already selectable by setting up the current
process context.  And for the uid/gid bits, we also have setfsuid to
set the id for creation without causing the whole process to suddenly
change ownership.

A similar way of setting the effective sid for new object creation
would eliminate over 20 of the new sys_security syscalls in the
SELinux patches.

--Stephen