Update newrole authors and provide use examples in manpage

PATCH In review Michael C Thompson 2 participants 2 messages Jan 19, 2007 – Jan 22, 2007 SELinux security module

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Michael C Thompson

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2007-01-19 20:50 UTC #0 lore raw

PATCH 1/1 Update newrole authors and provide use examples in manpage

Due to lack of clear documentation, the below patch adds an examples section to the newrole.1 manpage. These examples include changing role, and level (sensitivty only, and both sensitivity and clearance).

This patch also updates the authors sections of the newrole.1 manpage and the newrole.c source file, listing them in alphabetical order by last name.

Signed-off-by Michael Thompson <[email protected]>

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newrole/newrole.1 +34 -5

diff -Naur policycoreutils-1.33.12.orig/newrole/newrole.1 policycoreutils-1.33.12/newrole/newrole.1
@@ -57,16 +57,45 @@
 .B --version
 shows the current version of newrole
 .PP
+.SH EXAMPLE
+.br
+Changing role:
+   # id -Z
+   staff_u:staff_r:staff_t:SystemLow-SystemHigh
+   # newrole -r sysadm_r
+   # id -Z
+   staff_u:sysadm_r:sysadm_t:SystemLow-SystemHigh
+
+Changing sensitivity only:
+   # id -Z
+   staff_u:sysadm_r:sysadm_t:Unclassified-SystemHigh
+   # newrole -l Secret
+   # id -Z
+   staff_u:sysadm_r:sysadm_t:Secret-SystemHigh
+
+.PP
+Changing sensitivity and clearance:
+   # id -Z
+   staff_u:sysadm_r:sysadm_t:Unclassified-SystemHigh
+   # newrole -l Secret-Secret
+   # id -Z
+   staff_u:sysadm_r:sysadm_t:Secret
+
 .SH FILES
 /etc/passwd - user account information
 .br
 /etc/shadow - encrypted passwords and age information
+.br
+/etc/selinux/<policy>/contexts/default_type - default types for roles
+.br
 .SH SEE ALSO
-.B su
-(1),
-.B runas
+.B runcon
 (1)
 .SH AUTHORS
 .nf
-Tim Fraser ([email protected]) 
-Anthony Colatrella ([email protected])
+Anthony Colatrella
+Tim Fraser
+Steve Grubb <[email protected]>
+Darrel Goeddel <[email protected]>
+Michael Thompson <[email protected]>
+Dan Walsh <[email protected]>

newrole/newrole.c +8 -2

diff -Naur policycoreutils-1.33.12.orig/newrole/newrole.c policycoreutils-1.33.12/newrole/newrole.c
@@ -36,8 +36,14 @@
  * setuid root, so that it can read the shadow passwd file.
  * 
  *
- * Authors:  Tim Fraser , 
- *           Anthony Colatrella <[email protected]>
+ * Authors:
+ *      Anthony Colatrella <[email protected]>
+ *	Tim Fraser
+ *	Steve Grubb <[email protected]>
+ *	Darrel Goeddel <[email protected]>
+ *	Michael Thompson <[email protected]>
+ *	Dan Walsh <[email protected]>
+ *
  * Various bug fixes by Stephen Smalley <[email protected]>
  *
  *************************************************************************/

Stephen Smalley

2007-01-22 13:28 UTC #1 lore raw

Quoted 11 lines · Michael C Thompson

Due to lack of clear documentation, the below patch adds an examples section to the newrole.1 manpage. These examples include changing role, and level (sensitivty only, and both sensitivity and clearance).
This patch also updates the authors sections of the newrole.1 manpage and the newrole.c source file, listing them in alphabetical order by last name.
Signed-off-by Michael Thompson <[email protected]>
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Your patch was merged earlier upstream, in policycoreutils 1.33.14.

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Stephen Smalley
National Security Agency


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