On Fri, 2006-12-08 at 07:47 +1100, Russell Coker wrote:
> On Friday 08 December 2006 07:11, Stephen Smalley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Note however that the parallel thread on redhat-lspp has proposed using
> > Dan's patch (with fixes) for now to get the desired behavior for MLS,
> > renaming the current "context" option in namespace.conf to "level" to be
> > specific to level instantiation, and later introduce "role" or "context"
> > for role-based and/or full context instantiation when/if such support
> > exists in the kernel and/or policy.
> 
> Having the choice of instantiating by level, role, or by full context seems 
> like a useful feature to me.

Yes, although it somewhat breaks the intended encapsulation of the
context and security_compute_member interface.  At that point the level
returned by security_compute_member becomes rather irrelevant - it would
always be overridden by the logic in pam_namespace itself based on
whether "level" was specified.

-- 
Stephen Smalley
National Security Agency

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