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Re: question about pam_selinux multiple option

From: Chris PeBenito <pebenito_at_gentoo.org>
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 13:23:03 -0600


On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 09:04, Daniel J Walsh wrote:
> The multiple option was added to allow the user to select the security
> context they would be allowed to login in as. We have decided to pull
> this functionality from login programs and only allow the user to login
> with the default context.

I'm curious what prompted this change? Prompting the user for the context they want to login with, for local logins, has been there for as long as I've used SELinux (though thats only since March). That is, in the older /bin/login patches.

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Date Posted: Jan 15, 2009 | Last Modified: Jan 15, 2009 | Last Reviewed: Jan 15, 2009

 
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