[redhat-lspp] LSPP Development Telecon 04/10/2006 Minutes

[Stephen Smalley]

On Tue, 2006-04-18 at 07:28 +1000, Russell Coker wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-04-18 at 06:45 +1000, Russell Coker wrote:
> > I have a feeling that we need something along these lines, but your
> > suggestion doesn't seem to quite match the needs.
> > 
> > I'll spend some time working on this and send some mail to the list.  I
> > might need to spend a couple of days working on this.
> 
> Based on the discussion on the telecon, at this time it seems that an
> enhancement to newrole to support changing UID is the best option.
> 
> I'll work on this and send some code to the list if my tests show it as
> viable.

Rationale?  We just got done reverting pam_selinux from su and friends;
why do we want to put su-like functionality into newrole?  Sounds like a
regression to me...

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Stephen Smalley
National Security Agency