Re: SE Linux packages of login, sshd, tar, stat, findutils, fileutils, and [xkg]dm

[Giacomo Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>]

Russell Coker wrote:

> SE Linux requires modified versions of login, sshd, tar, stat, findutils, 
> fileutils [xkg]dm, and some other programs.
>
> Once such support is compiled in they can be used on non SE-Linux systems 
> without any problems.  The difference is only a few extra system calls, so it 
> will add a small amount to the binary size of the packages and some more 
> system calls to your strace output.
>
> Also it will require that the selinux-dev package be installed when building 
> such packages.
>
> Now for the other packages, which ones do you think should have a separate 
> package-se version and which ones should have it merged into the base 
> functionality?


IMHO it is better to have separate packages until the security package
stabilize. SELinux and other packages should share the same API, but
I think now the intercace in not mature nor stable.

> PS  I hope to have some test packages of SE-Linux enabled utilities on 
> http://www.coker.com.au/selinux/ within 24 hours, and a complete set of 
> SE-Linux Debian packages (apart from [xkg]dm) within a week.


do you need some help?

	giacomo

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