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

Pat Kane pekane52 at gmail.com
Tue Sep 26 09:42:38 PDT 2006


Eamon,

I am working on a X security extension and would like to review the XACE
changes.  Can I have a week to get my comments back to you?

Thanks,

Pat Kane

On 9/25/06, Eamon Walsh <ewalsh at tycho.nsa.gov> wrote:
>
> 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
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