| From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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| To: | Kevin Grittner <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov> |
| Cc: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, KaiGai Kohei <kaigai(at)ak(dot)jp(dot)nec(dot)com>, jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com, David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>, KaiGai Kohei <kaigai(at)kaigai(dot)gr(dot)jp>, Itagaki Takahiro <itagaki(dot)takahiro(at)oss(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Subject: | Re: Adding support for SE-Linux security |
| Date: | 2009-12-07 16:09:59 |
| Message-ID: | 20091207160959.GG3552@alvh.no-ip.org |
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Kevin Grittner escribió:
> > I'd like to see us be able to support it. One of the things that
> > I think would be worth looking into is whether there is a way to
> > make this pluggable, so that selinux and apparmor and trusted
> > solaris and so on could make use of the same framework
>
> Given the extreme patience and diligence exhibited by KaiGai, I
> hesitate to say this, but it seems to me that this would be
> critically important for the long term success of this feature. I
> have no idea how much work it would be to make the interface to the
> external security system pluggable, but if it's at all feasible, I
> think it should be done.
This is how the code was developed initially -- the patch was called
PGACE and SELinux was but the first implementation on top of it.
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Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
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