From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3C45A786.8010009@pcez.com> Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 08:17:10 -0800 From: Shaun Savage MIME-Version: 1.0 To: SELinux@tycho.nsa.gov CC: Stephen Smalley Subject: Re: /etc/security/default_context vs. /etc/security/default_contexts References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Sender: owner-selinux@tycho.nsa.gov List-Id: selinux@tycho.nsa.gov What is it format of the /etc/security/default_contexts? It would be easy to convert the utils to the new get_user_sids, but the format of the file for setting the default would need to be defined. Ideas? Shaun >The new libsecure functions and the /etc/security/default_contexts file >doesn't address the issue of a generic user. It merely eliminates the >need to maintain per-user entries in default_context and cron_context. >There is still the problem of maintaining policy/users. As Mark Westerman >suggested (and I agreed), this can be addressed through the definition of >a generic user and some minor modifications to the libsecure functions to >use this as the default, as long as you do not need to distinguish among >such users in the policy. If you want to maintain distinct role sets for >these users, then you will need to update policy/users in some manner. > > -- 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.