On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 10:29:38AM -0700, Stewart Stremler wrote: > Why should applications be aware of SE Linux? I don't like the idea of > applications changing behavior to adapt to my security policies... they > should complain with useful error messages when denied access to a resource, > and degrade gracefully.
how can an application give a useful errormessage if it is not aware of SE Linux? any errormessage other than: "access to resource denied by security policy" will likely be wrong or missleading and not really helpful. greetings, martin. -- cooperative communication with sTeam - caudium, pike, roxen and unix offering: programming, training and administration - anywhere in the world -- pike programmer travelling and working in europe open-steam.org unix system- bahai.or.at iaeste.(tuwien.ac|or).at administrator (caudium|gotpike).org is.schon.org Martin Bähr http://www.iaeste.or.at/~mbaehr/ -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
