SELinux and the Desktop

Karl MacMillan kmacmillan at tresys.com
Mon Oct 18 16:35:18 UTC 2004


> -----Original Message-----
> From: fedora-selinux-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:fedora-selinux-list-
> bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Stephen Smalley
> Sent: Monday, October 18, 2004 8:34 AM
> To: Fedora SELinux support list for users & developers.
> Subject: Re: SELinux and the Desktop
> 
> On Thu, 2004-10-14 at 11:15, Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu wrote:
> > On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 13:59:02 EDT, Stephen Smalley said:
> >
> > > not directly visible to the OS itself.  dbus and X (but unfortunately
> > > not the X in Fedora yet) have been modified to use that API to enforce
> > > policy over their abstractions.
> >
> > Where might one find a patch for this that has a snowball's chance of
> working
> > on an xorg X source tree?
> 
> See http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=selinux&m=108483628322478&w=2.  It
> is available in a branch of the xorg CVS tree.  But unfortunately, the
> developer of security-enhanced X has moved on to another office and it
> hasn't been maintained since July, AFAIK.
> 

You can also view the source here:

http://freedesktop.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/xc/?root=xorg&only_with_tag=XACE-
SELINUX

Karl

Karl MacMillan
Tresys Technology
http://www.tresys.com
(410)290-1411 ext 134

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