dbus-daemon, passing fd and SELinux

Lawrence D'Oliveiro ldo at geek-central.gen.nz
Wed Nov 7 20:08:28 UTC 2018


On Wed, 7 Nov 2018 20:01:07 +0100, Tom Gundersen wrote:

> What actually happens is that in order to receive an FD, dbus-daemon
> needs to have the same SELinux permissions necessary to open the FD
> in the first place.

Bugger. I guess that’s mandatory access control for you.

(Sorry, just thinking about some other code that might hit this
same situation...)


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