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

From Greg Smith
Subject Re: Adding support for SE-Linux security
Date
Msg-id 4B21D079.30400@2ndquadrant.com
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In response to Re: Adding support for SE-Linux security  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane wrote:
> It's been perfectly clear since day one, and was reiterated as recently
> as today
> http://archives.postgresql.org/message-id/4B21757E.7090806@2ndquadrant.com
> that what the security community wants is row-level security.

I think David Quigley's comments from earlier today summarize the 
situation better than I did:

"For our purposes in DoD we need the MAC Framework and the row based 
access controls.  But if a good starting point is to just do the access 
control over the database objects, then it will be useful for some 
commercial cases and some limited military cases"

So it's not without value even in its current "Lite" form.  But there's 
clearly a whole lot more use-cases that would benefit from a version 
with row filtering.

-- 
Greg Smith    2ndQuadrant   Baltimore, MD
PostgreSQL Training, Services and Support
greg@2ndQuadrant.com  www.2ndQuadrant.com



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