hextoalabel

- convert an internal text label to its human readable equivalent

Synopsis

/usr/sbin/hextoalabel [internal-text-sensitivity-label]

/usr/sbin/hextoalabel -c [internal-text-clearance]

Interface Level

This file is part of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) Mandatory Access Control (MAC) policy. This file might not be applicable to other MAC policies that might be developed for future releases of Solaris Trusted Extensions software.

Description

hextoalabel converts an internal text label into its human readable equivalent and writes the result to the standard output file. This internal form is often hexadecimal. If no option is supplied, the label is assumed to be a sensitivity label.

If no internal text label is specified, the label is read from the standard input file. The expected use of this command is emergency repair of labels that are stored in internal databases.

Options

-c

Identifies the internal text label as a clearance.

Exit Status

The following exit values are returned:

0

On success.

1

On failure, and writes diagnostics to the standard error file.

Attributes

See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

Files

/etc/security/tsol/label_encodings

The label encodings file contains the classification names, words, constraints, and values for the defined labels of this system.

See Also

atohexlabel(1M), label_to_str(3TSOL), str_to_label(3TSOL), label_encodings(4), attributes(5)

How to Obtain a Readable Label From Its Hexadecimal Form in Solaris Trusted Extensions Administrator’s Procedures

Notes

The stability of the command output is Stable for systems with the same label_encodings file. The stability of the command invocation is Stable for systems that implement the DIA MAC policy.