Usermode request: add patch enabling group membership to control auth user

[Matthew Miller]

On Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 12:54:49PM +0000, Paul Nasrat wrote:
> If you are staff_r it will prompt you for your own password before
> transitioning to sysadm_r to run the command.  

Which "it" does the prompting? And this is regardless of the settings in the
console.apps files? In other words, "SELinux totally breaks usermode"?


> Depending on policy tunables if you are user_r you won't be able to use
> administrative tools.

Ok.

I'm all for enhanced security, but I'm getting to be really skeptical about
SELinux. Layering an invisible shrinkwrap over everything and ignoring the
old permissions/authenticiation model completely is not the right solution
for Linux.



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