se_aptitude

SE_DPKG(8)                            NSA                           SE_DPKG(8)



NAME
       se_dpkg,se_apt-get,se_aptitude,se_dpkg-reconfigure,se_dselect,se_synap-
       tic - run a Debian package system programs in the proper security  con-
       text

SYNOPSIS
       se_dpkg [  <<dpkg ARGS>> ... ]
       se_apt-get [ <<apt-get ARGS>> ... ]
       se_aptitude [ <<aptitude ARGS>> ... ]
       se_dpkg-reconfigure [ <<dpkg-reconfigure ARGS>> ... ]
       se_dselect [ <<dselect ARGS>> ... ]
       se_synaptic [ <<synaptic ARGS>> ... ]

DESCRIPTION
       These  are  all  symbokic  links  to  a sumple wrapper script that uses
       run_init to run actually run the corresponding program after setting up
       the  proper  context.  run_init acquires a new Psuedo terminal, forks a
       child process that binds to the psueado  terminal,  forks  the  program
       (dpkg,apt-get,aptitude,synaptic,dselect,ordpkg-reconfigure)   that  the
       user actually needs to run, and then sits around and connects the phys-
       ical  terminal  it  was  invoked upon with the psuedo terminal, passing
       keyboard into to the child process, and passing the output of the child
       process to the physical terminal.

       It  sets up the psuedo terminal properly based on the physical terminal
       attributes, and then sets the user's terminal to RAW mode, taking  care
       to reset it on exit.

AUTHOR
       This manual page was written by Manoj Srivastava <srivasta AT debian.org>,
       for the Debian GNU/Linux system.



Security Enhanced Linux          January 2005                       SE_DPKG(8)