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Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2007 14:11:27 -0700 (PDT)
From: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/7] Security: Add secctx_to_secid LSM hooks and security helper functions
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--- "David P. Quigley" <dpquigl@tycho.nsa.gov> wrote:

> From: David P. Quigley <dpquigl@tycho.nsa.gov>
> 
> The existing LSM interface provides a hook for converting a security
> identifier
> to a security context. This patch introduces a complementary hook to provide
> the conversion from the security context to corresponding security
> identifier.

This is strictly SELinux behavior. I don't suppose it hurts
anything, but a general framework won't need this.

> Signed-off-by: David P. Quigley <dpquigl@tycho.nsa.gov>
> 

...


Casey Schaufler
casey@schaufler-ca.com

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