On Wed, 2006-11-29 at 17:13 -0500, Paul Moore wrote:
> James Antill wrote:
> > On Wed, 2006-11-29 at 16:32 -0500, Stephen Smalley wrote:
> > 
> >>I'm not sure the approach is quite workable yet either - if you
> >>configure xinetd to use labeled networking but the incoming connection
> >>is coming from a host that doesn't support it, getpeercon() will fail
> >>and you need to gracefully deal with it (e.g. fall back to some default,
> >>possibly based on the client machine's address).
> > 
> >  Isn't this exactly what netlabel is for? Do we really want to duplicate
> > that for each daemon?
> 
> NetLabel is a method of explicit labeled networking, i.e. it sends security
> attributes with each packet that both hosts must understand.

 As I understand it, you can say label received packets from host X with
context Y. Is that not so?

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