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)