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

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Adding support for SE-Linux security
Date
Msg-id 200912141345.nBEDjOM09735@momjian.us
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In response to Re: Adding support for SE-Linux security  (Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>)
Responses Re: Adding support for SE-Linux security  (Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>)
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Stephen Frost wrote:
> * 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

You are fine.  I was just saying that at a time I was one of the few
loud voices on this, and if this is going to happen, it will be because
we have a team that wants to do this, not because I am being loud.  I
see the team forming nicely.

> 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.

Ah, very interesting, and good.

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