From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from zombie.ncsc.mil (zombie.ncsc.mil [144.51.88.131]) by tarius.tycho.ncsc.mil (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m4RI8MXB013229 for ; Tue, 27 May 2008 14:08:22 -0400 Received: from mail.fluendo.com (jazzdrum.ncsc.mil [144.51.5.7]) by zombie.ncsc.mil (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id m4RI8KVS024567 for ; Tue, 27 May 2008 18:08:21 GMT Received: from mail.fluendo.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mail.fluendo.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9872D2500F8 for ; Tue, 27 May 2008 20:08:19 +0200 (CEST) Received: from deathwing00.fluendo.lan (core.fluendo.com [195.10.6.237]) by mail.fluendo.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B64A2500F5 for ; Tue, 27 May 2008 20:08:19 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <483C4E13.2030903@flumotion.com> Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 20:08:19 +0200 From: Ioannis Aslanidis MIME-Version: 1.0 To: selinux@tycho.nsa.gov Subject: Re: Quick question References: <483C46FA.9030904@flumotion.com> <1211911009.19360.51.camel@moss-spartans.epoch.ncsc.mil> In-Reply-To: <1211911009.19360.51.camel@moss-spartans.epoch.ncsc.mil> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: owner-selinux@tycho.nsa.gov List-Id: selinux@tycho.nsa.gov -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Stephen Smalley wrote: > > If I understand correctly, you want to provide separation on a per-user > basis (not just per-role) for NFS-mounted home directories. I don't > think that is realistically supportable by SELinux today, as 1) SELinux > distinguishes based on security context/label, not uid, and 2) NFS > doesn't support file labeling yet. Sounds more like a job for 'normal > permissions' i.e. discretionary access modes and/or ACLs. There is > ongoing work to support file labeling in NFSv4, but it is still in > development, and even then, instantiating a separate role for every user > is going to be problematic for any large number of users. > And would there be a way to do something so that each user has a different context? That is to say, I can assign a different context to each user and have something easily maintained. Do you see that viable? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFIPE4SFq+8w76sCAARAjn1AJ9WOkv51PzZTueUkD8jCYAN1z/U8wCcDsyj r2FnoXXpA0la49+Li2jAuK4= =h8RH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- This message was distributed to subscribers of the selinux mailing 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.