Fedora 12 and unprivileged package installation

Posted Nov 23, 2009 1:13 UTC (Mon) by pspinler (subscriber, #2922)
Parent article: Fedora 12 and unprivileged package installation

Instead of inventing something completely different, could some existing framework like Opensolaris / Solaris 10's RBAC (http://www.softpanorama.org/Solaris/Security/solaris_rbac...) be used?

It'd have the advantage of already being in production several years, having a open source reference implementation in Opensolaris (although it'd have to be reimplemented due to license incompatibility) already having an LDAP schema for central administration, and already having a set of people knowledgeable about it.

-- Pat

Fedora 12 and unprivileged package installation

Posted Nov 23, 2009 8:58 UTC (Mon) by luya (subscriber, #50741) [Link]

Lets not forget PolicyKit is part of Freedesktop.org. It is somewhat similar Solaris RBAC in term of concept.

Fedora 12 and unprivileged package installation

Posted Nov 23, 2009 17:01 UTC (Mon) by clugstj (subscriber, #4020) [Link]

Is anyone using RBAC in Solaris? Just because it is "in production" doesn't mean that it is any good.