| From: | Ron Mayer <rm_pg(at)cheapcomplexdevices(dot)com> |
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| To: | jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, KaiGai Kohei <kaigai(at)ak(dot)jp(dot)nec(dot)com>, Itagaki Takahiro <itagaki(dot)takahiro(at)oss(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp>, KaiGai Kohei <kaigai(at)kaigai(dot)gr(dot)jp>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: SE-PgSQL patch review |
| Date: | 2009-12-03 01:19:49 |
| Message-ID: | 4B171235.1010602@cheapcomplexdevices.com |
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Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-12-01 at 14:46 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>> "Joshua D. Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
>>> On Mon, 2009-11-30 at 20:28 -0800, David Fetter wrote:
>>>> This is totally separate from the really important question of whether
>>>> SE-Linux has a future, and another about whether, if SE-Linux has a
>>>> future, PostgreSQL needs to go there.
>>> Why would we think that it doesn't?
>> Have you noticed anyone except Red Hat taking it seriously?
>
> I just did a little research and it appears the other two big names in
> this world (Novel and Ubuntu) are using something called App Armor.
How much of SE-PgSQL would also complement the App Armor framework?
Also, yet another MAC system called Tomoyo from NTT was merged into
the linux kernel earlier this year.
Is SE-PgSQL orthogonal and/or complimentary to all of those?
Since I see MAC features continuing to be added to operating
systems, I can certainly imagine they're important to some
customers.
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