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Re: Changing context with UID - doubt

From: Stephen Smalley <sds_at_epoch.ncsc.mil>
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 10:09:25 -0500


On Sun, 2005-01-09 at 08:37, Bartlomiej Balcerek wrote:
> Hello,
> I'am still newbie in SELinux. I'am confused, if SELinux can
> automaticaly change process context when changing system EUID ?
> My process executes shell with different EUID, which just executes another
> subprocess. I want that subprocess to run in role or domain coupled
> with its EUID, defined in "user" file. It is possible in SELinux ?

No, SELinux has its own user identity attribute, and does not use the Linux uids for its own access control or transition decisions (although the existing Linux DAC checks are still applied as well). See the User Identity Model section of
http://www.nsa.gov/selinux/papers/policy2/x87.html.  

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Stephen Smalley <sds@epoch.ncsc.mil>
National Security Agency


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