From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1REMbg-0004Ut-FI for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 13 Oct 2011 14:50:02 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 862E4E0462; Thu, 13 Oct 2011 14:49:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 533ECE0462 for ; Thu, 13 Oct 2011 14:49:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pelican.gentoo.org (unknown [66.219.59.40]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C6A7F1B4018 for ; Thu, 13 Oct 2011 14:49:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pelican.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03DE180042 for ; Thu, 13 Oct 2011 14:49:51 +0000 (UTC) From: "Sven Vermeulen" To: gentoo-commits@lists.gentoo.org Content-type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Reply-To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org, "Sven Vermeulen" Message-ID: Subject: [gentoo-commits] proj/hardened-docs:master commit in: xml/ X-VCS-Repository: proj/hardened-docs X-VCS-Files: xml/selinux-faq.xml X-VCS-Directories: xml/ X-VCS-Committer: SwifT X-VCS-Committer-Name: Sven Vermeulen X-VCS-Revision: ee9fb9d06f54205f107cc3c611db69a27f09fb40 Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 14:49:51 +0000 (UTC) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-commits@lists.gentoo.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: b289c56effe0c4b4ede87cdfc1a06c75 commit: ee9fb9d06f54205f107cc3c611db69a27f09fb40 Author: Sven Vermeulen siphos be> AuthorDate: Thu Oct 13 14:49:38 2011 +0000 Commit: Sven Vermeulen siphos be> CommitDate: Thu Oct 13 14:49:38 2011 +0000 URL: http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=3Dproj/hardened-docs= .git;a=3Dcommit;h=3Dee9fb9d0 Add FAQ on nosuid mount file systems --- xml/selinux-faq.xml | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++-- 1 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/xml/selinux-faq.xml b/xml/selinux-faq.xml index b556c57..70b2f69 100644 --- a/xml/selinux-faq.xml +++ b/xml/selinux-faq.xml @@ -17,8 +17,8 @@ The FAQ is a collection of solutions found on IRC, mail= inglist, forums or elsewhere =20 -15 -2011-10-08 +16 +2011-10-13 =20 Questions @@ -800,5 +800,23 @@ Now Portage will function properly again, labeling f= iles as they should. =20 +
+Applications do not transition on a nosuid-mounted partition</tit= le> +<body> + +<p> +If you have file systems mounted with the <c>nosuid</c> option, then +applications started from these file systems will not transition into th= eir +appropriate domain. This is intentional. +</p> + +<p> +So, a <c>passwd</c> binary, although correctly labeled <e>passwd_exec_t<= /e>, +will not transition into the <e>passwd_t</e> domain if the binary is sto= red on a +file system mounted with <c>nosuid</c>. +</p> + +</body> +</section> </chapter> </guide>