002190 This patch adds a GConf policy to refpolicy.

Authored and Committed by Chris PeBenito 18 years ago
    This patch adds a GConf policy to refpolicy.  
    
    This policy is much tighter than the GConf policy from the old example
    policy.  It only allows gconfd to access configuration data stored by
    GConf.  Users can modify configuration data using gconftool-2 or
    gconf-editor, both of which use gconfd.  GConf manages multiple
    configuration sources, so gconfd should be used to make any changes
    anyway.  Normal users who aren't trying to directly edit the
    configuration data of GConf won't notice anything different.
    
    There is also a difference between this policy and the old example
    policy in handling directories in /tmp.  The old example policy
    labeled /tmp/gconfd-USER with ROLE_gconfd_tmp_t, but, since there was no
    use of the file_type_auto_trans macro, if that directory was deleted
    gconfd would create one labeled as tmp_t.  This policy uses the
    files_tmp-filetrans macro to cause a directory in /tmp created by gconfd
    to be labeled as $1_tmp_t.  It is not labeled with $1_gconf_tmp_t,
    because if /tmp/orbit-USER is deleted, gconfd will create it (through
    use of ORBit) and it would get the $1_gconf_tmp_t label.  By having
    gconfd create $1_tmp_t directories in /tmp and $1_gconf_tmp_t files and
    directories in directories labeled with $1_tmp_t, it can control its
    data without requiring any future bonobo or Gnome policies to have
    access to $1_gconf_tmp_t.
    
    This patch is related to work that I am doing in making gconfd an
    userspace object manager.  If any user program can modify the
    configuration data that GConf stores, than making gconfd an userspace
    object manager would be useless.
    
    Signed-off-by:  James Carter <jwcart2@tycho.nsa.gov>
    
    
        
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