Thread: SE-Postgres?

Has anyone else heard of this?  Someone is taking Postgres and making a SE
version of it; basically, it looks like they want to take SELinux-like
contexts and add them to each tuple.

http://www.nsa.gov/selinux/list-archive/0703/19813.cfm

Thoughts?

Cheers,
-J

Josh,

> Has anyone else heard of this?  Someone is taking Postgres and making a
> SE version of it; basically, it looks like they want to take
> SELinux-like contexts and add them to each tuple.
>
> http://www.nsa.gov/selinux/list-archive/0703/19813.cfm

The already did it.  Search -hackers for discussion.

We'll be arguing about whether to merge it into the core code for 8.4 in a
few months.

--
--Josh

Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL @ Sun
San Francisco