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SELinux Cookbook
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SELinux Cookbook

by Sven Vermeulen
September 2014
Intermediate to advanced
240 pages
5h 53m
English
Packt Publishing
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Adding build-time policy decisions

The last enhancement we might want to look at is build-time policy decisions. Unlike SELinux Booleans, these are policy blocks that are enabled (or disabled) based on build parameters. We have encountered a few of these in the past already, namely enable_mcs, enable_mls as well as distribution selection parameters, such as distro_gentoo or distro_redhat.

In this recipe, we will enable the xdg_manage_downloads_home call but only when the policy is built for a Gentoo system.

How to do it…

Build-time decisions are added to the policy using the ifdef statements, as can be seen through the next set of steps:

  1. Open myskype.te and add in the following block of code:
    ifdef(`distro_gentoo',` xdg_manage_downloads_home(skype_t) ...
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