It is an announcement of new version of SE-PostgreSQL. Now v8.3 based SE-PostgreSQL is available ----------------------------------------- SE-PostgreSQL development team published v8.3 based SE-PostgreSQL at: http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/development You can obtain the v8.3 based sepostgresql package which contains its security policy module from here. NOTE: This version is not available at Fedora 8 or prior. Please wait for Fedora 9, or update your system to rawhide. The following official documentation will help your understanding: http://sepgsql.googlecode.com/files/sepgsql_security_guide.20080214.en.pdf Updates from v8.2 based SE-PostgreSQL - The base version was upgraded to PostgreSQL 8.3.0 - It enabled to share external libraries (like -contrib package) with original PostgreSQL. - Cumulative bugfixes. The features of SE-PostgreSQL ----------------------------- Security-Enhanced PostgreSQL (SE-PostgreSQL) is a security extension built in PostgreSQL, to provide system-wide consistency in access controls. It enables to apply a single unigied security policy of SELinux for both operating system and database management system. In addition, it also provides fine-grained mandatory access which includes column-/row- level non-bypassable access control even if privileged database users. These features enables to deploy SE-PostgreSQL into data flow control scheme integrated with operating system, to protect our information asset from threats like leaking, manupulation and so on. http://code.google.com/p/sepgsql/wiki/WhatIsSEPostgreSQL Thanks, -- KaiGai Kohei <kaigai@xxxxxxxxxxxx> -- This message was distributed to subscribers of the selinux mailing list. If you no longer wish to subscribe, send mail to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the words "unsubscribe selinux" without quotes as the message.
