Re: AppArmor or SELinux?
On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 12:45 PM, Ralf Mardorf
<ralf.mardorf@alice-dsl.net> wrote:
> On Sun, 2012-06-17 at 17:38 +0100, Brian wrote:
>> On Sun 17 Jun 2012 at 18:00:25 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>>>
>>> Joe and Sam (most wanted spammers on this list) never ever will have
>>> impact to your Linux ;). Forget AppArmor! Read about ConsoleKit and
>>> other "security helpers", we already run much to much threads, when
>>> running Linux.
>>
>> Consolekit is not a replacement for AppArmor; they have different
>> purposes. Cannot comment on "security helpers" because its function is
>> unknown.
>
> Yes, but it's part of the paranoia ;) and comes withs tons of threads,
> on Ubuntu Precise:
>
> spinymouse@precise:~$ ps -eLf|grep console-kit-daemon|wc -l
> 66
It's an old bug/feature:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17720
Patches were proposed then pulled because they had undesirable side-effects.
Take a look at the last post in the bug report above and then at:
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/ConsoleKit
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