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

From Stephen Frost
Subject Re: Adding support for SE-Linux security
Date
Msg-id 20091213133217.GN17756@tamriel.snowman.net
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In response to Re: Adding support for SE-Linux security  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
Responses Re: Adding support for SE-Linux security  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
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* Bruce Momjian (bruce@momjian.us) wrote:
> I am not replying to many of these emails so I don't appear to be
> brow-beating (forcing) the community into accepting this features.  I
> might be brow-beating the community, but I don't want to _appear_ to be
> brow-beating.  ;-)

My apologies if I come across this way- I don't intend to...  But I'm
also very enthusiastic about this.  Also, it's become a much more
personal issue for me due to this:

http://csrc.nist.gov/news_events/documents/omb/draft-omb-fy2010-security-metrics.pdf

OMB is now looking to include label-based security in their metrics.
This directly impacts some of the PG-based systems I run.
Thanks,
    Stephen

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