Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 15 Jun 2007 21:46:54 -0400 (EDT) | From | James Morris <> | Subject | Re: [AppArmor 39/45] AppArmor: Profile loading and manipulation, pathname matching |
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On Fri, 15 Jun 2007, Seth Arnold wrote:
> > How does inotify not work here? You are notified that the tree is > > moved, your daemon goes through and relabels things as needed. In the > > meantime, before the re-label happens, you might have the wrong label on > > things, but "somehow" SELinux already handles this, so I think you > > should be fine. > > SELinux does not relabel files when containing directories move, so it > is not a problem they've chosen to face.
It's a deliberate design choice, and follows traditional Unix security logic. DAC permissions don't change on every file in the subtree when you mv directories, either.
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