Usermode request: add patch enabling group membership to control auth user

Paul Nasrat pauln at truemesh.com
Fri Apr 16 12:54:49 UTC 2004


On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 08:56:41PM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 05:28:46PM -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> > > <http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=86188>
> > > Any comments/suggestions are very welcome.
> > SELinux roles! :)
> 
> I admit, I have not fully grokked how usermode works with SELinux. If
> you (or anyone, I'm not picky) could give me a five-second summary, that'd
> be great. :) 

If you are staff_r it will prompt you for your own password before
transitioning to sysadm_r to run the command.  Depending on policy tunables if
you are user_r you won't be able to use administrative tools.

Paul





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