Re: Adding support for SE-Linux security

From: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Chad Sellers <csellers(at)tresys(dot)com>, "David P(dot) Quigley" <dpquigl(at)tycho(dot)nsa(dot)gov>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, KaiGai Kohei <kaigai(at)ak(dot)jp(dot)nec(dot)com>, jd <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>, Itagaki Takahiro <itagaki(dot)takahiro(at)oss(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp>, KaiGai Kohei <kaigai(at)kaigai(dot)gr(dot)jp>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Adding support for SE-Linux security
Date: 2009-12-13 13:32:17
Message-ID: 20091213133217.GN17756@tamriel.snowman.net
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* Bruce Momjian (bruce(at)momjian(dot)us) wrote:
> I am not replying to many of these emails so I don't appear to be
> brow-beating (forcing) the community into accepting this features. I
> might be brow-beating the community, but I don't want to _appear_ to be
> brow-beating. ;-)

My apologies if I come across this way- I don't intend to... But I'm
also very enthusiastic about this. Also, it's become a much more
personal issue for me due to this:

http://csrc.nist.gov/news_events/documents/omb/draft-omb-fy2010-security-metrics.pdf

OMB is now looking to include label-based security in their metrics.
This directly impacts some of the PG-based systems I run.

Thanks,

Stephen

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