How to determine the role of a user

[Daniel J Walsh]

Anurup Mishra wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I am new to SELinux and recently I am able to install
>Fedora Core 2 test 2 on on machine.
>
>I want to implement a role based access control in one
>of my Java Stand Alone application. 
>
>During experimentation, when I tried to find the
>context of an another user as root, I got following
>message:
>[root at v60x-1 root]# id --context n1gsps
>id: cannot display context when selinux not enabled or
>when displaying the id of a different user
>
>Now my first question is how do I figure out the role
>of another user. Do I need to tweak the policy to
>achieve this?? Could someone please navigate me on
>this.
>
>Second, how do I figure out the role of a user from a
>Java Application. As of now I am trying id command
>from java exec. Please suggest if you know any better
>alternative.
>
>warm regards,
>
>Anurup Mishra
>
>  
>
ps Z | grep username  would give you all the processes run by the user, and
the context they are running in.  Since a user can be in multiple roles 
in different
process id -Z username does not make sense.

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