Re: SE-PostgreSQL Specifications

From: KaiGai Kohei <kaigai(at)kaigai(dot)gr(dot)jp>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Sam Mason <sam(at)samason(dot)me(dot)uk>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: SE-PostgreSQL Specifications
Date: 2009-07-26 03:40:17
Message-ID: 4A6BD021.7010503@kaigai.gr.jp
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Robert Haas wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 11:27 PM, KaiGai Kohei<kaigai(at)kaigai(dot)gr(dot)jp> wrote:
>> | Access control is conceptually to decide a set of allowed (or denied)
>> | actions between a certain subject (such as a database client) and an
>> | object (such as a table), and to apply the decision on user's requests.
>> | At the database privilege system, ACL stored in database objects itself
>> | holds a list of allowed actions to certain database roles, and it is
>> | applied on the user's request.
>> | SELinux also holds massive sets of allowed actions between a certain
>> | subject and a certain object, we call them security policy.
>>
>> Is it obscure?
>
> It's obscure to me. :-)
>
> I think you need to define security policy more precisely and give at
> least one or two examples of security policy entries.

OK, I'll try to define it more precisely and introduce a few examples
in the documents.

Thanks,
--
KaiGai Kohei <kaigai(at)kaigai(dot)gr(dot)jp>

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