Re: [RFC] Add color translation support to mcstransd

[Eamon Walsh <ewalsh@tycho.nsa.gov>]

Eamon Walsh wrote:
> I have placed the code into a git repository which can be checked out with:
> git-clone git://people.freedesktop.org/~ewalsh/mcstrans
>
> The "master" branch contains the code that was in the SRPM file that Joe
> posted to this list in June.  If you have more recent changes send them
> my way and I will update the repo to include them.
>
> The "color-ewalsh" branch contains the color code for the proposal
> above.  There have been some changes, namely:
>
> The format of the returned string is now hex digits with hash marks,
> e.g.  "#000000 #ffffff #000000 #ffffff..."
> The separate "level" and "category" rules have been dropped and replaced
> by a single "range" rule.  The SELinux interface does not expose the
> details of the MLS component of the security context.  The only function
> offered is a "dominance" check implemented as a permission bit on the
> "context" security class (and even this doesn't currently work
> correctly, because it only accepts domains as the subject context, more
> on this in another post).  Whether the details, which would include the
> ebitmaps for categories and level numbers, should be exposed is up for
> debate.  Because of this only eight colors are now returned

A screen shot of a sample application that uses the color translations
can be seen at:
http://people.freedesktop.org/~ewalsh/mcscolor_screenshot.png


-- 
Eamon Walsh <ewalsh@tycho.nsa.gov>
National Security Agency


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