Re: SELinux context of PostgreSQL connection process

From: Мартынов Александр <m--a-s(at)yandex(dot)ru>
To: "pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: SELinux context of PostgreSQL connection process
Date: 2015-04-13 14:31:56
Message-ID: 4899871428935516@web16j.yandex.ru
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If the user is given the necessary permissions, then can the connection process get a context of the user?
I mean a category and a level (sensibility) by context.
Does the architecture of PostgreSQL permit to add changing a context of a connection process to context of the connecting user?

25.03.2015, 17:38, "Мартынов Александр" <m--a-s(at)yandex(dot)ru>:
> If the user is given the necessary rights, then can the connection process get a context of the user?
> Is there the possibility in principle?
>
> 24.03.2015, 21:11, "John R Pierce" <pierce(at)hogranch(dot)com>:
>>  On 3/24/2015 5:16 AM, Мартынов Александр wrote:
>>>   There is postgres db with sepgsql enabled. When user connect to postgres db with psql, postgres create new process for each connection. These processes have selinux context unconfined_u:unconfined_r:postgresql_t.
>>>
>>>   Is there a way to assign the process a context of user that connected to db?
>>  what if that user is on a different system connecting over the network?
>>
>>  no, the only user the postgres server processes should run as are those
>>  of the postgres server itself as it needs to read and write files in the
>>  postgres data directory tree.
>>
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