Re: Socket and inode label consistency

[Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>]

Trent Jaeger wrote:
> ...
>>
>> However it sounded like you could just use setsockcreatecon(3) to
>> achieve your goal, which would be cleaner than relabeling an existing
>> socket.
>
> Yes, that works for what we are doing now.  I'd be curious if someone 
> has a need beyond setting a label on creation.
>

Sure, any service that wants to serve clients with a variety of labels.
The X server is an obvious candidate. A multi-label message bus. Label
aware sendmail. xinetd. Name services (the YP/NIS of the day). Anywhere
you want the label of the response to depend on the label of the request.
Yes, we're talking about Trusted Applications here, and specially coded
ones at that. Sometimes that's the best way.



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