Merging the XACE work (was: Re: Bring on the release wrangling)

[Eamon Walsh]

On Wed, 2006-09-13 at 18:53 -0400, Adam Jackson wrote:
> On Wednesday 13 September 2006 16:30, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> > Eamon Walsh & I have been discussing the possibility of merging
> > XACE-modular branch to head for this release.   Is there anything people
> > would want to see before we do this or anyone have a reason it shouldn't go
> > in?   (It simply integrates the XACE framework and modifies the XC-Security
> > & AppGroup implementations in the X server to use it - it does not provide
> > the SELinux or Trusted Solaris extensions, but does provide the framework
> > so that people working on or with them can just add them without having to
> > patch the xserver.)
> 
> This seems reasonable, with the assumption that you somehow managed to find 
> testcases for security and appgroup.

I have some testcases written.  That and other XACE info including an
annotated diff can be viewed at
http://people.freedesktop.org/~ewalsh/xace_proposal.html

It's ready to go in; give me the OK and I can merge it. 


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Eamon Walsh <ewalsh at tycho.nsa.gov>
National Security Agency