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Sven Vermeulen
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Sven Vermeulen

Sven Vermeulen (sjvermeu on Twitter) is a long-term contributor to various free software projects and the author of several online guides and resources, including the Gentoo Handbook. He got his first taste of free software in 1997 and never looked back. Within SELinux, Sven contributed several policies to the Reference Policy project, and actively participated in policy development and user space development projects. In his daily job, Sven is an enterprise architect in a European financial institution as well as a self-employed solution engineer and consultant. Prior to this, he graduated with an MSE in computer engineering from Ghent University and an MSc in ICT enterprise architecture from IC Institute.
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Enhancing an SELinux policy with file transitions


Up until now, we've only handled the configuration part on file contexts: if we would ask SELinux utilities to relabel files, then the changes we made would come into effect. However, unless you run with the restorecond daemon checking out all possible file modifications (which would really be a resource hog) or run restorecon manually against all files regularly, the newly defined contexts will not be applied to the files.

What we need to do is modify the local SELinux policy so that, upon creation of these files, the Linux kernel automatically assigns the right label to those files. This is handled through file transitions, which is a specific case of a type transition.

In a type transition, we configure a policy so that if a given domain creates a file (or other resource class) inside a directory with a specified label, then the created object should automatically get a specific label. Policy-wise, this is written as follows:

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Sven Vermeulen

Sven Vermeulen (sjvermeu on Twitter) is a long-term contributor to various free software projects and the author of several online guides and resources, including the Gentoo Handbook. He got his first taste of free software in 1997 and never looked back. Within SELinux, Sven contributed several policies to the Reference Policy project, and actively participated in policy development and user space development projects. In his daily job, Sven is an enterprise architect in a European financial institution as well as a self-employed solution engineer and consultant. Prior to this, he graduated with an MSE in computer engineering from Ghent University and an MSc in ICT enterprise architecture from IC Institute.
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