Brian Cameron wrote:
> Thanks for reminding me of this. For those of you who took the time
> to read the discussion on the GNOME screensaver-list, you'll notice
> that this came up.
>
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/screensaver-list/2008-January/msg00003.html
>
> At the risk of encouraging more Linux-bashing, reading this thread you
> will notice that the Linux community seems to think that the Xserver
> supporting something called XACE (X Access Control Extension) and
> labelled objects will address these issues. I'm not sure if they are
> considering a11y, nor am I sure if XACE will be supported on Solaris.
XACE isn't an extension, nor a solution. It's a framework for adding
security hooks to the X server - we've used it in the Xserver shipping
in Solaris since we upgraded to Xorg 1.2 last year - it's how both the
XC-Security and XTSol extensions install their hooks to add security checks.
What the thread is really referring to is doing something similar on Linux
using XACE to enable the hooks for the SE-Linux X extension.
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
