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From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
To: "Matthew N. Dodd" <Matthew.Dodd@sparta.com>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>,
	"David P. Quigley" <dpquigl@tycho.nsa.gov>,
	labeled-nfs@linux-nfs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk,
	selinux@tycho.nsa.gov
Subject: Re: [Labeled-nfs] [RFC v3] Security Label Support for NFSv4
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 09:20:48 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1223990448.8907.1.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48F400DD.50905@sparta.com>

On Mon, 2008-10-13 at 22:15 -0400, Matthew N. Dodd wrote:
> James Morris wrote:
> > On Mon, 29 Sep 2008, David P. Quigley wrote:
> > 
> >> 	* New security flavor (auth_seclabel) to transport process label to
> >> 	  server. This is a derivative of auth_unix so it does not support
> >> 	  kerberos which has its own issues that need to be dealt with.
> > 
> > This is a problem, as discussed last year:
> > 
> > http://linux-nfs.org/pipermail/labeled-nfs/2007-November/000110.html
> > 
> > We can't require the use of a new auth flavor which is incompatible with 
> > auth_gss.
> 
> auth_seclabel demonstrates the flavor independent changes required for 
> any RPC layer process label transport.  A GSS solution is currently 
> under discussion.

Right, but I'm not particularly interested in merging "demonstration"
code that might end up requiring permanent support. I'd very much like
to see all of this get further through the IETF process before we talk
about merging into mainline.

Cheers
  Trond

  reply	other threads:[~2008-10-14 13:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-29 17:06 [RFC v3] Security Label Support for NFSv4 David P. Quigley
2008-09-29 17:06 ` [PATCH 01/14] VFS: Factor out part of vfs_setxattr so it can be called from the SELinux hook for inode_setsecctx David P. Quigley
2008-09-30 19:51   ` Serge E. Hallyn
2008-09-29 17:06 ` [PATCH 05/14] SELinux: Add new labeling type native labels David P. Quigley
2008-09-29 17:06 ` [PATCH 06/14] KConfig: Add KConfig entries for Labeled NFS David P. Quigley
2008-09-30 20:40   ` Serge E. Hallyn
2008-09-29 17:06 ` [PATCH 10/14] NFSv4: Introduce new label structure David P. Quigley
2008-09-29 17:06 ` [PATCH 11/14] NFS/RPC: Add the auth_seclabel security flavor to allow the process label to be sent to the server David P. Quigley
2008-10-03 14:23   ` Andy Whitcroft
2008-10-03 15:44     ` Matthew N. Dodd
     [not found] ` <1222707986-26606-1-git-send-email-dpquigl-+05T5uksL2qpZYMLLGbcSA@public.gmane.org>
2008-09-29 17:06   ` [PATCH 02/14] LSM/SELinux: inode_{get,set,notify}secctx hooks to access LSM security context information David P. Quigley
2008-09-30 20:01     ` Serge E. Hallyn
2008-10-06 20:52       ` David P. Quigley
2008-09-30 20:22     ` Serge E. Hallyn
2008-10-06 20:52       ` David P. Quigley
2008-09-29 17:06   ` [PATCH 03/14] Security: Add hook to calculate context based on a negative dentry David P. Quigley
2008-09-30 20:15     ` Serge E. Hallyn
     [not found]       ` <20080930201524.GC21039-r/Jw6+rmf7HQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2008-10-10 17:54         ` David P. Quigley
2008-10-10 18:26           ` Serge E. Hallyn
2008-09-29 17:06   ` [PATCH 04/14] Security: Add Hook to test if the particular xattr is part of a MAC model David P. Quigley
2008-09-29 17:06   ` [PATCH 07/14] NFSv4: Add label recommended attribute and NFSv4 flags David P. Quigley
2008-09-29 17:06   ` [PATCH 08/14] NFS: Add security_label text mount option and handling code to NFS David P. Quigley
2008-09-29 17:06   ` [PATCH 09/14] NFS: Introduce lifecycle management for label attribute David P. Quigley
2008-09-29 17:06   ` [PATCH 12/14] NFS: Client implementation of Labeled-NFS David P. Quigley
2008-09-29 17:06   ` [PATCH 13/14] NFS: Extend NFS xattr handlers to accept the security namespace David P. Quigley
2008-09-29 17:06   ` [PATCH 14/14] NFSD: Server implementation of MAC Labeling David P. Quigley
2008-10-13 23:31 ` [RFC v3] Security Label Support for NFSv4 James Morris
2008-10-14  2:15   ` [Labeled-nfs] " Matthew N. Dodd
2008-10-14 13:20     ` Trond Myklebust [this message]
2008-10-14 14:28       ` David P. Quigley

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