From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from jazzswing.ncsc.mil (jazzswing.ncsc.mil [144.51.68.65]) by tycho.ncsc.mil (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA05165 for ; Wed, 24 Apr 2002 10:27:53 -0400 (EDT) Received: from jazzswing.ncsc.mil (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jazzswing.ncsc.mil with ESMTP id OAA03690 for ; Wed, 24 Apr 2002 14:26:07 GMT Received: from nox.lemuria.org ([213.191.86.30]) by jazzswing.ncsc.mil with ESMTP id OAA03686 for ; Wed, 24 Apr 2002 14:26:06 GMT Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 16:28:23 +0200 From: Tom To: Stephen Smalley Cc: SE Linux Subject: Re: split admins Message-ID: <20020424162823.B14745@lemuria.org> References: <20020424154523.B14453@lemuria.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: ; from sds@tislabs.com on Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 09:59:37AM -0400 Sender: owner-selinux@tycho.nsa.gov List-Id: selinux@tycho.nsa.gov On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 09:59:37AM -0400, Stephen Smalley wrote: > When the example policy was originally being developed, there was an > initial attempt to provide such a distinction between a system > administrator and a security administrator, but the separate role was > discarded because it turns out to be very difficult to truly enforce a > separation between these two roles without severely limiting the system > administrator role, making it relatively useless. The topic has also come > up previously on the list, e.g. see > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=selinux&m=100799744813965&w=2. I'll check that discussion and give it a go. I'm happy with not doing away root=god. I'm more interested in having, say, an application-level admin (control over the daemons, network services, whatever). Just thought a security admin would be a useful thing to start this with. -- http://web.lemuria.org/pubkey.html pub 1024D/D88D35A6 2001-11-14 Tom Vogt Key fingerprint = 276B B7BB E4D8 FCCE DB8F F965 310B 811A D88D 35A6 -- You have received this message because you are subscribed to the selinux list. If you no longer wish to subscribe, send mail to majordomo@tycho.nsa.gov with the words "unsubscribe selinux" without quotes as the message.