From: Daniel J Walsh <dwalsh@redhat.com>
To: Chris PeBenito <pebenito@gentoo.org>
Cc: SELinux Mail List <selinux@tycho.nsa.gov>
Subject: Re: question about pam_selinux multiple option
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 14:52:16 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F9D7770.90403@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1067282582.1077.16.camel@chris.pebenito.net>
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Chris PeBenito wrote:
>On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 09:04, Daniel J Walsh wrote:
>
>
>>The multiple option was added to allow the user to select the security
>>context they would be allowed to login in as. We have decided to pull
>>this functionality from login programs and only allow the user to login
>>with the default context.
>>
>>
>
>I'm curious what prompted this change? Prompting the user for the
>context they want to login with, for local logins, has been there for as
>long as I've used SELinux (though thats only since March). That is, in
>the older /bin/login patches.
>
>
The problem was that different login programs worked differently. Login
had this ability, sshd did not. Some versions of [xg]dm had it but
others didn't and it was very complicated code withing these login
programs. We just decided to simplify it and not expose this to the Users.
Dan
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-10-27 19:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-10-25 4:44 question about pam_selinux multiple option Yuichi Nakamura
2003-10-27 15:04 ` Daniel J Walsh
2003-10-27 19:23 ` Chris PeBenito
2003-10-27 19:52 ` Daniel J Walsh [this message]
2003-10-27 22:38 ` Russell Coker
2003-10-27 15:24 ` Stephen Smalley
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