SE_DPKG(8)								NSA								SE_DPKG(8)

NAME

       se_dpkg,se_apt-get,se_aptitude,se_dpkg-reconfigure,se_dselect,se_synaptic  -  run  a  Debian package system programs in the proper security
       context

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 programs are all symbolic links to a simple 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 pseudo 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  physical  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@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system.

Security Enhanced Linux 					   January 2008 							SE_DPKG(8)