On Thu, 2005-07-21 at 10:50 -0400, Christopher J. PeBenito wrote: > On Thu, 2005-07-21 at 21:42 +1000, Russell Coker wrote: > > Is this really what we want? Having a system process allocate shared memory > > that can be used by any user processes? Also it seems likely that other > > sound programs will need to access the shared memory in question. > > > > There are three possible assumptions that we could make: > > > > 1) Anyone who is serious about security doesn't use ALSA so such > > access doesn't matter that much. > > This isn't the case. ALSA isn't any different then OSS from a SELinux > viewpoint. I don't have ainit on any of my Gentoo machines; after a few > minutes on Google, it seems that this is a Redhat/Fedora specific > program. At the moment possibly, but I'm sure other systems will want to unbreak their sound eventually too :) > Probably the right answer if the shared memory doesn't have to be shared > between all user domains. It needs to be accessible to any program that wants to play sound. -- fedora-selinux-list mailing list fedora-selinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-selinux-list
