From: dominick.grift@gmail.com (Dominick Grift)
To: refpolicy@oss.tresys.com
Subject: [refpolicy] authbind policy should be removed
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 11:16:12 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1389694572.28251.22.camel@x220.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1814654.EuWY9bQnYy@russell.coker.com.au>
On Tue, 2014-01-14 at 15:12 +1100, Russell Coker wrote:
> >From a casual inspection it seems that no daemons call the interfaces for
> authbind.
>
> Authbind has not been tested in Debian for many years, has it ever been tested
> in any other distribution?
>
> The purpose of authbind is removed by the fact that SE Linux can restrict
> daemons which run as root.
>
> I don't think that there is a good cause to have authbind policy in the
> archive and it currently doesn't work. So I think it should be removed.
>
You do not have to install that module. If you don't want it then just
remove it from your modules.conf, or do semodule -r authbind if its
already installed.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-01-14 10:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-14 4:12 [refpolicy] authbind policy should be removed Russell Coker
2014-01-14 10:16 ` Dominick Grift [this message]
2014-01-14 10:52 ` Russell Coker
2014-01-14 11:15 ` Dominick Grift
2014-01-14 13:41 ` Christopher J. PeBenito
2016-11-23 0:57 ` Russell Coker
2016-11-23 3:20 ` Chris PeBenito
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