Re: Adding support for SE-Linux security - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: Adding support for SE-Linux security
Date
Msg-id 20091207160959.GG3552@alvh.no-ip.org
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In response to Re: Adding support for SE-Linux security  ("Kevin Grittner" <Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov>)
Responses Re: Adding support for SE-Linux security  (Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org>)
List pgsql-hackers
Kevin Grittner escribió:

> > I'd like to see us be able to support it.  One of the things that
> > I think would be worth looking into is whether there is a way to
> > make this pluggable, so that selinux and apparmor and trusted
> > solaris and so on could make use of the same framework
>  
> Given the extreme patience and diligence exhibited by KaiGai, I
> hesitate to say this, but it seems to me that this would be
> critically important for the long term success of this feature.  I
> have no idea how much work it would be to make the interface to the
> external security system pluggable, but if it's at all feasible, I
> think it should be done.

This is how the code was developed initially -- the patch was called
PGACE and SELinux was but the first implementation on top of it.

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