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Fedora 9 Update: policycoreutils-2.0.52-8.fc9 Print E-mail
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Posted by Benjamin D. Thomas   
Fedora Security-enhanced Linux is a feature of the Linux® kernel and a number of utilities with enhanced security functionality designed to add mandatory access controls to Linux. The Security-enhanced Linux kernel contains new architectural components originally developed to improve the security of the Flask operating system. These architectural components provide general support for the enforcement of many kinds of mandatory access control policies, including those based on the concepts of Type Enforcement®, Role-based Access Control, and Multi-level Security.
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2008-7231
2008-09-05 10:39:05
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Name        : policycoreutils
Product     : Fedora 9
Version     : 2.0.52
Release     : 8.fc9
URL         : http://www.selinuxproject.org
Summary     : SELinux policy core utilities
Description :
Security-enhanced Linux is a feature of the Linux® kernel and a number
of utilities with enhanced security functionality designed to add
mandatory access controls to Linux.  The Security-enhanced Linux
kernel contains new architectural components originally developed to
improve the security of the Flask operating system. These
architectural components provide general support for the enforcement
of many kinds of mandatory access control policies, including those
based on the concepts of Type Enforcement®, Role-based Access
Control, and Multi-level Security.

policycoreutils contains the policy core utilities that are required
for basic operation of a SELinux system.  These utilities include
load_policy to load policies, setfiles to label filesystems, newrole
to switch roles, and run_init to run /etc/init.d scripts in the proper
context.

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ChangeLog:

* Mon Aug 11 2008 Dan Walsh  2.0.52-8
- Add missing html_util.py file
* Tue Jul 29 2008 Dan Walsh  2.0.52-6
- Fix boolean handling
- Upgrade to latest sepolgen
- Update po patch
* Wed Jul  9 2008 Dan Walsh  2.0.52-5
- Additial cleanup of boolean handling for semanage
* Tue Jul  8 2008 Dan Walsh  2.0.52-4
- Handle ranges of ports in gui
* Tue Jul  8 2008 Dan Walsh  2.0.52-3
- Fix indent problems in seobject
* Wed Jul  2 2008 Dan Walsh  2.0.52-2
- Add lockdown wizard
- Allow semanage booleans to take an input file an process lots of booleans at once.
* Wed Jul  2 2008 Dan Walsh  2.0.52-1
- Default prefix to "user"
* Tue Jul  1 2008 Dan Walsh  2.0.50-2
- Remove semodule use within semanage
- Fix launching of polgengui from toolbar
* Mon Jun 30 2008 Dan Walsh  2.0.50-1
- Update to upstream
	* Fix audit2allow generation of role-type rules from Karl MacMillan.
* Tue Jun 24 2008 Dan Walsh  2.0.49-10
- Fix spelling of enforcement
* Mon Jun 23 2008 Dan Walsh  2.0.49-8
- Fix sepolgen/audit2allow handling of roles
* Mon Jun 16 2008 Dan Walsh  2.0.49-7
- Fix sepolgen-ifgen processing
* Thu Jun 12 2008 Dan Walsh  2.0.49-6
- Add deleteall to semanage permissive, cleanup error handling
* Thu Jun 12 2008 Dan Walsh  2.0.49-5
- Complete removal of rhpl requirement
* Wed Jun 11 2008 Dan Walsh  2.0.49-4
- Add semanage permissive *
* Fri May 16 2008 Dan Walsh  2.0.49-3
- Fix fixfiles to cleanup /tmp and /var/tmp
* Fri May 16 2008 Dan Walsh  2.0.49-2
- Fix listing of types in gui
* Mon May 12 2008 Dan Walsh  2.0.49-1
- Update to upstream
	* Remove security_check_context calls for prefix validation from semanage.
	* Change setfiles and restorecon to not relabel if the file already has the correct context value even if -F/force is specified.
* Mon May 12 2008 Dan Walsh  2.0.47-3
- Remove /usr/share/locale/sr@Latn/LC_MESSAGES/policycoreutils.mo
* Wed May  7 2008 Dan Walsh  2.0.47-2
- Add 	rm -rf /tmp/gconfd-* /tmp/pulse-* /tmp/orbit-* to fixfiles restore
- So that mislabeled files will get removed on full relabel
* Wed May  7 2008 Dan Walsh  2.0.47-1
- Make restorecond not start by default
- Fix polgengui to allow defining of confined roles.
- Add patches from Lubomir Rintel  
  * Add necessary runtime dependencies on setools-console for -gui
  * separate stderr when run seinfo commands
- Update to upstream
  * Update semanage man page for booleans from Dan Walsh.
  * Add further error checking to seobject.py for setting booleans.
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update policycoreutils' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key.  More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
http://fedoraproject.org/keys
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