Description of problem: Not sure if this is a bug or not, since I have never used func. We found puppet was not respecting SELinux labeling and causing files to be mislabed which can break the system. When Func installs files it has to make sure the labels on the files are correct for that system. As an example if func installed an update to /etc/services or /etc/nsswitch and labeled it incorrectly most of the confined network daemons would start to get access denied and may blow up. SELinux has a couple of system calls that can be used to assure this. C, Python and Ruby bindings now exist for libselinux. ( rc, con) = matchpathcon(PATH,MODE) Will give you an SELinux file context to assign to a file. setfscreatecon(file, con) Tells the kernel that all files in the future created by this process will be created with the context "con". setfilecon(file, con) Change the file context of an existing file to "con". If you already do this correctly then thanks, and close this bugzilla.
Daniel, Thanks for the heads up. If using the copyfile module right now (which is essentially just scp) it would just depend on the current directory/file context. I am not sure if we have this bug or not, but I imagine if files in /etc have different context and we overwrite one with the equivalent of a scp, how that context might not be the same? Func is a Python app, so I suppose we will need to look into the shell equivalents if there is not a selinux python module available. Might be neat to have one :)
If the file exists it would be best to keep the current context. Probably what you do now. I probably should open a similar bug on scp. There are python bindings, most of SELinux tools are written in python and the pseudo code I wrote above is python based. I guess if you could just experiment and distribute a /etc/resolv.conf and make sure it ends up as net_conf_t. Try with the resolv.conf file there and with it missing.
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