On Fri, Sep 15, 2006 at 10:59:07AM +0200, Erich Schubert wrote:
> Hello Steve,
> > Could you remind me why this module is specific to /etc/pam.d/ssh and
> > /etc/pam.d/login, rather than something that should be enabled in the global
> > config?

> AFAIK it's because login and ssh are interactive sessions. These might
> be using different contexts (e.g. sysadm_r, staff_r, user_r), whereas
> when logging into the imap server this differentiation is not necessary.
> (well, I could imagine we would need it in courier and dovecot when
> storing the mail in the users home folder?)
> We definitely need some selinux wizard for that.

Ok.  What about cron, su, *dm, sudo, samba, ftp servers...?  All of these
processes change uids as well after authentication, do they also need
selinux support?

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