Chris PeBenito wrote:

>On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 09:04, Daniel J Walsh wrote:
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>>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.
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>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.
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>

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