Re: [Fwd: type class key]

[Daniel J Walsh <dwalsh@redhat.com>]

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David Howells wrote:
> Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> wrote:
> 
>> Ah, wait - this is an automatic allocation of a per-uid keyring upon a
>> setuid() call, right?
> 
> Yes.
> 
>> and a single Linux uid might ultimately have a number of SELinux security
>> contexts running on its behalf.
> 
> Indeed.  It's not something that anyone considered at the time, I suppose.
> 
> David
> 
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David, we need a method of querying the keyring to see what the selinux
context that is associated with it.  For debugging purposes.  Currently
we can not tell whether the policy is correct or not, since we have no
way to ask the keyring for its label.
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