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From: Michael C Thompson <thompsmc@us.ibm.com>
To: Ted X Toth <txtoth@gmail.com>
Cc: selinux@tycho.nsa.gov
Subject: Re: su and context
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 10:39:18 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <45D09836.5060007@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45CDEDEE.4050205@gmail.com>

Ted X Toth wrote:
> Why doesn't my context change when I 'su' to a different user?

I'm pretty sure su isn't SELinux aware like newrole is -- not 
investigated the source enough to save 100%, but pretty sure.

Is there a reason why you would want it to affect your context?

DAC and MAC are not intended to be related I thought.

Mike


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  reply	other threads:[~2007-02-12 16:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-02-10 16:08 su and context Ted X Toth
2007-02-12 16:39 ` Michael C Thompson [this message]
2007-02-12 16:53   ` Stephen Smalley
2007-02-12 17:15     ` Michael C Thompson
2007-02-12 17:38     ` Ronan Waide
2007-02-12 17:59       ` Stephen Smalley
2007-02-15  7:43         ` Russell Coker
2007-02-16 10:06           ` Ronan Waide
2007-02-13 16:51     ` Ted X Toth
2007-02-13 16:56       ` Stephen Smalley

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