On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 1:32 PM, Stephen Smalley <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 01/03/2013 04:08 PM, William Roberts wrote:
>>
>> Is their a way to change the ending inode context, the one under
>> sdcard? vfat only supports one contexts correct?
>
>
> You can't set an individual security context on a vfat file because the
> filesystem type doesn't support storing per-file security attributes. No
> different than uid/gid and any mode bit not supported by vfat.  If you had
> multiple vfat mounts, then you could label each one of them differently.
> But not per-file within a mount.  And they have to be mounts with separate
> backing store.
>
>
>> Just to verify, it looks like it is doing this, each inode's context
>> is checked against the policy along the way, correct?
>
>
> The inode is labeled with the appropriate context when it is created, and
> then that context is used in permission checks on that inode when it is
> accessed.

Ok thats what I thought, every inode access is verified which means
every inode in that "chain" is checked.

>



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Respectfully,

William C Roberts

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