| From: | Ron Mayer <rm_pg(at)cheapcomplexdevices(dot)com> |
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| To: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, KaiGai Kohei <kaigai(at)ak(dot)jp(dot)nec(dot)com>, jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com, David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>, 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: Adding support for SE-Linux security |
| Date: | 2009-12-05 19:31:33 |
| Message-ID: | 4B1AB515.7030804@cheapcomplexdevices.com |
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Robert Haas wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 5:23 PM, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> wrote:
>> Kaigai, you've said that you could get SELinux folks involved in the
>> patch review. I think it's past time that they were; please solicit them.
>
> Actually, we tried that already, in a previous iteration of this
> discussion. Someone actually materialized and commented on a few
> things. The problem, as I remember it, was that they didn't know much
> about PostgreSQL, so we didn't get very far with it. Unfortunately, I
> can't find the relevant email thread at the moment.
IIRC, at least a couple of the guys mentioned on the NSA's
SE-Linux page[1] participated - Joshua Brindle[2] and Chad
Sellers[3] (in addition to Kaigai/NEC who's credited on the
NSA site as well). Perhaps one or two others too - but with
common names it's hard to guess.
Links to the threads with Chad and Joshua below.
[1] http://www.nsa.gov/research/selinux/contrib.shtml
[2] http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aarchives.postgresql.org+brindle
[3] http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aarchives.postgresql.org+chad+sellers
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