[redhat-lspp] Re: MLS enforcing PTYs, sshd, and newrole

James Antill jantill at redhat.com
Mon Oct 23 16:14:57 UTC 2006


On Thu, 2006-10-19 at 09:30 -0400, Stephen Smalley wrote:

> pam_selinux used to have support to let the user pick from the list of
> reachable contexts for the user.  So you could just restore that
> support.

 So, in summary of the discussion, having pam_selinux let the user pick
the TE and Sensitivity separately (much as it does now if
get_ordered_context_list_with_level() fails) is the valid approach?

> That doesn't address sshd though.  Or gdm.  sshd shouldn't be too
> difficult.

 Combined with adding similar code to sshd.

>   There were some externally developed gdm patches for selinux
> that enabled context selection long ago, but nothing recent
> (pre-Fedora).

 But, from the "gdm/trsuted-X needs lots more work" discussion, gdm
should just stay with the default Sensitivity and people can use a
terminal+ssh to change levels?

-- 
James Antill <jantill at redhat.com>
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