Re: SE-PostgreSQL Specifications

On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 11:27 PM, KaiGai Kohei<kaigai@kaigai.gr.jp> wrote:
> | Access control is conceptually to decide a set of allowed (or denied)
> | actions between a certain subject (such as a database client) and an
> | object (such as a table), and to apply the decision on user's requests.
> | At the database privilege system, ACL stored in database objects itself
> | holds a list of allowed actions to certain database roles, and it is
> | applied on the user's request.
> | SELinux also holds massive sets of allowed actions between a certain
> | subject and a certain object, we call them security policy.
>
> Is it obscure?

It's obscure to me.  :-)

I think you need to define security policy more precisely and give at
least one or two examples of security policy entries.

...Robert