Re: Default Policy question?

[Tom <tom@lemuria.org>]

On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 12:04:21PM -0400, Daniel J Walsh wrote:
> Has anyone discussed the problem of having root be a member of the 
> sysadm_r role.  

I think it was mentioned on this list, yes. In fact, I've made it a
habit to remove root from sysadm_r.


> Is there a way to define policy such that you could
> allow a sysadmin to manipulate configuration without allowing them to
> effect policy?  Ie, does the default policy allow someone the ability to
> change the /etc/printcap file but not run load_policy?  

Yes, it does. The policy files have their own types, so it would be
easy to restrict them more than normal config files. In fact, many
config files have their own types as well, so you can seperate
different applications and have different admins for them.


> Should we have three levels of user by default.  

More :)

I've just started working on something. I will likely post a proposal
in a couple of days. If you want to work with me on this, just yell.


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