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Shadow hardening

Shadow hardening

Posted Mar 22, 2012 22:08 UTC (Thu) by dpquigl (subscriber, #52852)
In reply to: Shadow hardening by jake
Parent article: Shadow hardening

Are they completely getting rid of /etc/passwd? I don't believe pam_selinux actually looks at the shadow file at all. I believe it takes the user name and figures out the SELinux user from that and chooses the login context properly. I don't see how breaking out shadow would change that. I'll take a look into it. I haven't looked at how either of the projects work yet but my first concern would be that the shadow files just aren't label properly. Any links to the actual projects so I can check them out when I get home?


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Shadow hardening

Posted Mar 22, 2012 22:12 UTC (Thu) by dpquigl (subscriber, #52852) [Link]

Bleh wish I had that edit key. I meant to ask if there are examples of getting this going on Fedora or something like that. That would probably be the best place to test SELinux integration.

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