Re: SE Linux packages of login, sshd, tar, stat, findutils, fileutils, and [xkg]dm

[Giacomo Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>]

Aaron Lehmann wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 03:45:10PM +0100, Russell Coker wrote:
>
> > tar, stat, findutils, fileutils
>
> not a troll, but why have these been modified? as they are general
> userspace programs with no special priviledges, IMHO it seems like
> very poor design to be modifying them to increase security.


IIRC: thay are modified to allow user to show/find/store/restore some
of the extra file 'flags/privileges' used by security modules.

	giacomo