(2010/04/12 23:09), Christopher J. PeBenito wrote:
On Fri, 2010-04-09 at 14:29 +0900, KaiGai Kohei wrote:
> (2010/04/08 21:15), Daniel J Walsh wrote:
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>> As Dominick stated. I prefer to think in terms of two different roles.
>> Login Roles, and Roles to execute in when you have privileges (IE Root).
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>> Login Roles/Types
>> staff_t, user_t, unconfined_t, xguest_t, guest_t
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>> Three interfaces can be used to create confined login users.
>>
>> userdom_restricted_user_template(guest)
>> userdom_restricted_xwindows_user_template(xguest)
>> userdom_unpriv_user_template(staff)
>>
>>
>> Admin Roles/Types
>> logadm_t, webadm_t, secadm_t, auditadm_t
>>
>> The following interface can be used to create an Admin ROle
>> userdom_base_user_template(logadm)
>>
>>
>> sysadm_t is sort of a hybrid, most people use it as an Admin Role.
>>
>>
>> I imagine that you login as a confined user and then use sudo/newrole to
>> switch roles to one of the admin roles.
>
> The attached patch revises roles/dbadm.te (to be applied on the upstream
> reference policy). It uses userdom_base_user_template() instead of the
> userdom_unpriv_user_template(), and should be launched via sudo/newrole.
> In the default, it intends the dbadm_r role to be launched by staff_r role.
Why does dbadm need to run setfiles?
The database files (typically, /var/lib/(se)?pgsql/*) have to be labeled
correctly, so I thought dbadm needs to run setfiles.
However, as long as they initialize database files using init script,
initrc_t domain performs this initial labeling, so it might not be necessary.
On the other hand, PostgreSQL support a feature to use multiple disks
within a single database instance for performance utilization.
(Called TABLESPACE; I don't know whether MySQL has such a feature.)
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2006-08/msg00142.php
It requires administrators to assign proper security context on the secondary
directory, or to mount the secondary disk with context='...' option.
Is there any good idea?
Or, it should not be a task for dbadm?
Use of staff_role_change_to() is not allowed upstream. If staff
should
be allowed to change to dbadm, the dbadm_role_change() should be used in
the staff module.
OK, I'll fix it.
Thanks,
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KaiGai Kohei <kaigai(a)ak.jp.nec.com>