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libutil: defer setting the MAC label until after the login class
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Authored by kevans on Oct 26 2025, 3:01 PM.
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Summary

MAC policies, like mac_biba(4), may forbid changing the login class once
a label has been applied. For setting up the initial login context,
this isn't really expected and in-fact may break some class-based
configuration.

Defer setting the MAC label until after the login class is set, and
remove the requirement that we have a pwd entry since the label is
pulled from the login class -- we only use pwd for syslog in this path.

Patch is largely by Kevin Barry, with some modifications and this commit
message by kevans@.

PR: 177698
Co-authored-by: Kevin Barry <ta0kira gmail com>

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