Re: Legitimate Question

From: Russell Coker (bofhat_private)
Date: Fri Jan 25 2002 - 18:20:29 PST

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    On Sat, 26 Jan 2002 05:16, Casey Schaufler wrote:
    > This has been a longstanding issue in the trusted systems world.
    > Any change to the policy makes 3rd party installation scripts
    > fail, especially those which check for access and proceed
    > based on the information returned. Yes, I know, all applications
    > should be written to deal with failures. To do so, they
    > need to know the policies being enforced. They need a way
    > to find this out.
    
    Why not just ship the application in question in RPM or DEB form and have the 
    package manager deal with this?
    
    You can build a RPM or DEB package on a machine without any LSM support and 
    then install it on an LSM machine.  As long as the package dependencies were 
    correct then it would work fine.
    
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