[redhat-lspp] Xinetd patch

Steve Grubb sgrubb at redhat.com
Thu Sep 29 14:22:11 UTC 2005


On Thursday 29 September 2005 10:19, Chad Hanson wrote:
> I'm not sure I understand this. The general rule of MLS is that all objects
> get created at the existing label. Having xinetd start services at the
> level of the incoming connection is a simple extension of this.

Its common practice to use telnet to connect to services to check if they are 
working, for example, ftp or imap. I don't think you really want xinetd 
launching things at the originating connection's context.

I think we are better off extending xinetd to understand MLS networking.

-Steve




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