Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-12-01 at 14:46 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>> "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com> writes:
>>> On Mon, 2009-11-30 at 20:28 -0800, David Fetter wrote:
>>>> This is totally separate from the really important question of whether
>>>> SE-Linux has a future, and another about whether, if SE-Linux has a
>>>> future, PostgreSQL needs to go there.
>>> Why would we think that it doesn't?
>> Have you noticed anyone except Red Hat taking it seriously?
>
> I just did a little research and it appears the other two big names in
> this world (Novel and Ubuntu) are using something called App Armor.
How much of SE-PgSQL would also complement the App Armor framework?
Also, yet another MAC system called Tomoyo from NTT was merged into
the linux kernel earlier this year.
Is SE-PgSQL orthogonal and/or complimentary to all of those?
Since I see MAC features continuing to be added to operating
systems, I can certainly imagine they're important to some
customers.