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diff --git a/Documentation/security/Smack.txt b/Documentation/security/Smack.txt index 5e6d07fbed07..945cc633d883 100644 --- a/Documentation/security/Smack.txt +++ b/Documentation/security/Smack.txt @@ -255,6 +255,16 @@ unconfined the access permitted if it wouldn't be otherwise. Note that this is dangerous and can ruin the proper labeling of your system. It should never be used in production. +relabel-self + This interface contains a list of labels to which the process can + transition to, by writing to /proc/self/attr/current. + Normally a process can change its own label to any legal value, but only + if it has CAP_MAC_ADMIN. This interface allows a process without + CAP_MAC_ADMIN to relabel itself to one of labels from predefined list. + A process without CAP_MAC_ADMIN can change its label only once. When it + does, this list will be cleared. + The values are set by writing the desired labels, separated + by spaces, to the file or cleared by writing "-" to the file. If you are using the smackload utility you can add access rules in /etc/smack/accesses. They take the form: |