On Mon, 8 Oct 2001, James Bishop wrote:

> I can live without X for this project, where we have to implement a root
> certification authority for a system using public key cryptography. I'm
> interested in using Linux for the registration service of the root CA,
> and SELinux appears to be ideal for this task. So, X is neither
> required, nor desirable if it bypasses the login choke-point.

Ok. However, you can run X after logging into the system via startx if you uncomment the necessary permissions in your xserver.te file, so this is a possibility if you need it. Also, Mark Westerman has created a modified gdm and a gdm policy, so you could use that if needed. But be aware that either of these choices has risks.

> 1) My modified login does not work on my original SuSE (7.2 running a
> 2.4.4 kernel); I go through the motions of logging in, but just get
> returned to the login screen, as in SELinux.
> 2) The SuSE login uses PAM.

See if you can successfully build and run a pure SuSE 7.2 login using the original sources from which you started. Make sure that you are configuring and building the login program in the same way as rpm would, in accordance with the RPM spec file. Verify that your problems aren't due to the non-FLASK MCONFIG changes.

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Stephen D. Smalley, NAI Labs
ssmalley@nai.com




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