On Fri, 21 Oct 2005 07:05:29 +0200, Christian Perrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> (CC in case you don't follow -devel that closely given your current > situation, Manoj. Please accept my apologies in advance if you > do...) >> At this point, most of the major packages that have to be modified >> to enable a bare SELinux Debian system are in place, with coreutils >> being the last holdout. > Myself and other shadow package maintainers were wondering whether > we have to compile shadow utilities (login, su, passwd...) with > SELinux support. > One of my co-maintainers said me we shouldn't because libselinux1 is > not in the base system...which seems untrue..:-) (or I misunderstood > him which is also likely) > So, I guess we could, indeed...anyway I bet you'll ask us to do so > at some moment, won't you? Oh, that's not needed. SElinux uses PAM to mediate access to the password (there is a SELinux PAM module now). So, people who want to enable SELinux on their machine have to do something like so: ,----[ Add SELinux capability to the system ] | if ! grep pam_selinux.so /etc/pam.d/login >& /dev/null; then | echo "" >> /etc/pam.d/login | echo "session required pam_selinux.so multiple" >> /etc/pam.d/login | echo "" >> /etc/pam.d/login | fi `---- Thanks for asking, though. manoj ps: an MRI rapidly palls after the first 20 minutes or so pps: I also happen to agree with DK below -- A person who is more than casually interested in computers should be well schooled in machine language, since it is a fundamental part of a computer. -- Donald Knuth Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.debian.org/%7Esrivasta/> 1024D/BF24424C print 4966 F272 D093 B493 410B 924B 21BA DABB BF24 424C -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]